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...eyes, especially TV's, will be on Washington this week when Luci Johnson marries Patrick Nugent. Special programs both live and taped will cover virtually every aspect of the event, except the ceremony in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. CBS leads off with a wedding-eve special on Friday from 10 to 11 p.m. NBC and ABC join in on Saturday with live coverage from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., plus taped recaps of the highlights on all three networks in the evening...
...Luci Baines Johnson proved no exception. "I only want," she said last month, "as personal a wedding as possible in the circumstances in which I find myself." In reality, Luci's wedding to Patrick Nugent this week will be a semimonarchical event, a marital marathon to which, as Comedienne Edie Adams quips, "nobody is invited except the immediate country." It could hardly be otherwise in an age of ubiquitous journalistic surveillance and omnivorous curiosity about the day-to-day doings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And Lyndon Johnson has gone farther than most Presidents to share his progeny, pets, predilections...
...going to be a long, hot summer with rioting in the East Wing," groaned Elizabeth Carpenter as she looked forlornly forward to Luci Baines Johnson's August wedding. As Lady Bird's press secretary, Liz has cause to worry. All the world's journalists, from the Australian Consolidated Press to an editor of the student paper at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia, want to come to the affair. Turning most of them down is tough enough; saying no to assorted requests from reporters who have been invited is honing her tongue. How about telephones...
After a long Fourth of July weekend on the Texas ranch, Lady Bird Johnson was rarin' to return to Washington and dive back into the elaborate prepara tions for Luci's Aug. 6 wedding. But Lyndon Johnson was in his natural hab itat and, in the absence of any pressing business, had no intention whatever of rushing away. Said he to Lady Bird: "The Cabinet's gone. Congress is home. You and I and [Bill] Moyers would be there all alone." So the visit was ex tended for the rest of the week - a week in which...
...contemplate pressuring Congressmen at present," he says. "We'll take what's on the books and that's plenty." Still another educational consultant is Leo S. Tonkin Associates, which recently hired as associate director a young man with a promising future in Washington circles-Luci's fiance Pat Nugent...