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...Hill to preside over the opening of the day's Senate session ("You keep hearing people say that presiding over the Senate is a dull job. Why, I enjoy that"), then to speak to a meeting of students, next to the Statler Hilton to address a luncheon of the Advertising Federation of America, back to his office for an afternoon of paper work, and finally into bib and tucker for the White House dinner at which he was one of the honored guests...
When the word got to Lyndon, he apparently decided that he ought to do something about his reputed favoritism to N (for Nancy) BC. So, coming out of the Capitol luncheon on the day of his inauguration, Lyndon drew a bead on ole Dan Rather and said, "Hello, Dan." Millions saw and heard him do it on the owned and affiliated stations of the CBS Television Network...
...speech took 21 minutes. Then the great solemnity of the moment began to dissolve. It was time for lunch with Congressmen and friends. Still, the process of history in which he had just participated was an affecting thing for Lyndon Johnson. En route to the luncheon, he stopped in his tracks, impulsively, wordlessly, leaned over and kissed his wife on the mouth. Lynda Bird saw it, and she moved up, drew the President's head down and kissed him on both cheeks. Johnson gazed down at Luci Baines, and she too kissed him. Then they walked...
...Court will rule soon on whether any foreign company has a right to mine in Brazil. In Australia, where U.S companies are investing at the rate of $4,000,000 a week, the government is under mounting pressure to require part local ownership of foreign subsidiaries At a special luncheon in Paris, the creme de la creme of France's business leaders listened last week to dire predictions that their country may be over run by an "invasion" of powerful U S corporations, whose investment there has risen to $1.2 billion. Said Rene Sanson of the National Assembly...
Introducing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall to 108 U.S. Olympic medal winners at a White House luncheon, President Johnson described him as a onetime "star guard on the baseball team" at the University of Arizona. An aide later issued a correction, said the President had really meant football. Actually, Udall was a basketball guard, and a good...