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Lyndon Johnson took a notion to press the flesh with the folks in Omaha and Des Moines last week. Invited along were Daughter Luci Baines and Fiancé Pat Nugent, who attracted their share of attention-and then some. Luci, who admits to being a "theatrical person," wore a dazzling orange dress and outsized, orange-rimmed sunglasses. As for Pat, who was having troubles with an errant zipper on his trousers, limelight was the last thing he wanted. Afterward, the young couple headed down to the L.B.J. ranch for the holiday weekend and Luci's 19th birthday party...
...brush with the law during a three-day trip to New York with her mother to see some plays, do some shopping (at Peck & Peck, she proved that there's a certain kind of woman who can look at clothes without buying any) and, most important, help Sister Luci Baines pick out a trousseau for her Aug. 6 wedding. The afternoon before the Lasker bash, Lynda graced a table at Manhattan's scintillating La Caravelle restaurant, while her Secret Service escort went around the corner for a less Lucullan lunch. Their rented Mercury stayed...
...Johnson women had no trouble finding something blue in New York -namely, cops-their efforts at selecting something new for Luci's trousseau proved more trying. With about as much secrecy as surrounds a National Security Council meeting, the ladies held court in the 34th floor Presidential Suite of the Carlyle Hotel, while dress designers laden with garment bags swished in past lines of cold-eyed Secret Service men. No word of what Luci chose in the way of a gown was permitted to leak out to the expectant reporters in the lobby, and Lady Bird was triumphant...
...Again? Luci hurried back to Washington right after the well-guarded gown viewing. Following her back the next day, Lynda and Lady Bird had barely enough time to pick up Lyndon and whisk off to the University of Texas, where Lynda received her bachelor's degree (cum laude) in history-just 33 years after her mother got hers...
...same thing-her standard reply-when he took her in his arms at a White House reception for wounded veterans of Viet Nam. He insisted that Courtenay had been misquoted by a reporter who wrote that she had gazed fondly over the presidential shoulder at Airman Patrick Nugent, Luci's fiancé, and declared instead: "I love Pat." Johnson gently suggested that the newsman should buy an earphone...