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Word: lucy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Saying, Doing, Being | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...achieve that happiness, Luci relates in the current issue of Seventeen, she has had to grapple with her share of problems. Through the correction of a visual problem ("My left eye and my right eye worked independently of each other"), she was able to improve her grades at school. She also has overcome a distaste for politics-which, she explains, "took my parents away when I was a child. I was forced to grow up in a difficult situation. It kept us from doing things together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Abandoning Abandon | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

Lost Friends. With her father in the White House, the situation has improved. "I can say 'Hi' or 'Good morning,' " says Luci. "He's here all day, not visiting constituents in Texas." Even so, having the President for a father creates problems. For one thing, says Luci, he is constantly under strain that "it hurts you to see." Moreover, many of Luci's friends keep away: "They don't want you to think of them as opportunists. What they don't realize is that you need them more than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Abandoning Abandon | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...freshman at the Georgetown University School of Nursing, Luci is uncertain whether she will work on for a degree after her marriage. "All I know," she says, "is that I'll go where my husband goes." Meanwhile she faces a dither of prenuptial parties and arrangements. The wedding is planned as a "family event" at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Last week the White House announced that Luci Johnson's maid of honor will be Older Sister Lynda Bird-who, in denying rumors that she would soon marry Actor George Hamilton, was making Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Abandoning Abandon | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...Reasoning Together." The evening began quietly enough with a fox trot, the only step that Lyndon Johnson has ever been known to execute-whatever the music. Then Johnson urged Daughter Luci to Watusi with Fiance Patrick Nugent. From then on, in the words of one bystander, it was "Copenhagen a Go-Go." Lady Bird Johnson, topping the bill with Hubert Humphrey, bolted into a frenetic frug and a whirling Watusi. "Why," gasped one sideliner when Lady Bird started to swing, "she's doing the whole screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Doing the L.BJ. | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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