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...other modern Presidents came to be seriously isolated. Franklin Roosevelt's mobility was restricted by his polio and then by wartime security. For Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, political adversity, in the form of Viet Nam and Watergate, made it painful to move around much in the country. (Four decades earlier, Herbert Hoover had suffered similar imprisonment by the Depression; he was not much of a mixer even in good times.) Nixon and Jimmy Carter were more or less reclusive Presidents by temperament. Reagan's curiosity is well contained. Eisenhower was somewhat less gregarious than the famous grin suggested...
DIED. Yoichi Okamoto, 69, the first official White House photographer, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson and given unprecedented access to create a complete record of an Administration; by his own hand (hanging); in Bethesda...
DIED. Sarah Tilghman Hughes, 88, diminutive (5 ft. 1 in.), outspokenly liberal Dallas federal district judge who became the only woman ever to swear in a U.S. President when Lyndon Johnson, an old friend, summoned her to officiate aboard Air Force One after John Kennedy's assassination in 1963; of the effects of a stroke; in Dallas...
...presents countless other vignettes of Hughes gone amok: his Ted-Turner style July 1968 attempt to take over ABC which he ultimately gave up because it would have required him to leave his penthouse and make a personal appearance before the Federal Communications Commission; his frantic efforts under both Lyndon Johnson and Nixon to stop nuclear testing in Nevada and his offers of multimillion-dollar bribes to both if they would: the transfusions of pure Mormon blood he regularly purchased from Salt Lake City because they made him feel so good; his Thanksgiving 1970 top-secret "escape" from Nevada...
...going to stand here and give the President a blank checki for a Gulf of Tonkin resoultion," Glenn said. He was referring to the 1964 congressional resolution which permitted the late President Lyndon B. Johnson to send American troops to Vietnam...