Word: lucy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Algernon & Nellie. Eventually, of course, newsmen caught on, but Luci's new steady rated little attention from the press until October. At First Friday Mass, Pat proposed and was accepted. Luci received a ring made from Pat's Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity pin, which she has never worn in public. By the end of the month, headlines predicting their marriage bounced around the world. The President was at the L.B.J. ranch, recuperating from his gall-bladder operation, when Pat and Luci flew there on Oct. 29-presumably to obtain his permission to marry. It was widely surmised...
Actually, Luci insists that they did not even mention matrimony to Lyndon that weekend. The big confrontation-surely one of the most unnerving encounters in the annals of courtship-occurred a couple of weeks later when the President returned briefly to the White House. As Luci entered the selfservice elevator with her father, Pat high-signed that he would meet her in the solarium. "Where's Pat?" the President demanded. "Well, I want to see him. Go get him." Pat was duly summoned into the presidential bedroom on the second floor. Asked Johnson: "What's all this stuff...
...oration over, they-meaning Lyndon-discussed what Luci called "the pros and cons," while Pat, Luci and Lady Bird listened. Despite Aristotle's advice that "it is fitting for the women to be married at about the age of 18," Luci's age was an issue. "He brought up the fact that I still had school to finish," she recalls, "but then he said that married couples make better grades. He said the chances are that I might not be able to finish college, but then he said that I could go back and take courses later." Having...
...their guests be invited to the reception as well as the ceremony. As the pre-wedding activities escalated, the White House requested that some of the parties, showers and receptions for the bride be canceled because the "wedding was becoming more of a spectacular than Mrs. Johnson and Luci feel it ought...
...belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa Republican H. R. Gross grouched that he was not going to contribute $5 for an "heiress" he did not know, and Luci gracefully requested that the idea be dropped. Other well-wishers sent the bride...