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...Luci has also been around a bit. She campaigned with her parents in 26 states in 1964 and, despite the lisp she cannot always control, learned to deliver pleasant, spontaneous little talks. During the last academic year she buckled down earnestly to her nursing studies. Pat calls her "much more mature than other girls her age." To Luci, her sober, self-possessed fiancé is "a gentle man, a kind man, a fun man." And, she vows, "he will always have the upper hand...
...choice of a husband, Luci breaks another White House tradition. Without exception, her seven predecessors as White House brides took husbands who were mature, professionally established, wealthy, patrician, or all four.* By contrast, Pat, 23, has a modest background and an uncharted future. His parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, have lived for 25 years in a small orange bungalow with fake-brick siding in a blue-collar Waukegan neighborhood. Gerard Nugent, district sales manager for a mutual-fund distributor, is of Irish descent. Mrs. Nugent's antecedents are Lithuanian. They sent their tall, athletic son to parochial grammar...
Norn de Prom. In Milwaukee, Pat knew Beth Jenkins, a close friend of Luci's and daughter of former White House Aide Walter Jenkins. When Beth arranged an expedition to Washington in June 1965 to help celebrate Luci's graduation from National Cathedral School, Pat went along. Beth also suggested that Luci be Pat's date at the Marquette senior prom. Freshly unpinned from her most recent steady boy friend, Luci went to Milwaukee with her Secret Service escort, an outrageous blond wig, and a nom de prom (Amy Nunn) to assure privacy. The escapade was successful...
...Luci Johnson's first serious exposure to the pitfalls of being a President's daughter. Having already been christened in the Episcopal Church, she did not, strictly speaking, need a second baptism at the time of her conversion. Luci nonetheless requested and received the sacrament, prompting public complaint that she had gratuitously slighted the Episcopal Church and ecumenical spirit...
Aseptic Good Looks. Though the flurry was short-lived and Luci obviously had no intention of offending her mother's denomination, she was shaken by the outcry. Last month, in the White House solarium that has served her as study, sanctuary, party room and private meeting place with Pat-it had previously been Caroline Kennedy's nursery-schoolroom-Luci sat on a well-broken-in sofa, tucked her legs beneath her, and allowed that the baptismal storm had after all wafted Pat her way. "I didn't know what to do," she explained. "I was frightened. Lynda...