Word: macaronis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macaroni, the ponies, graze contentedly on the lush grass. Caroline's Welsh terrier, Charlie, skitters happily around the place, and in nice weather lives in a house under the magnolia tree that Andy Jackson planted near the back door. Pushinka, a pooch who came as a present from Nikita Khrushchev, has had a hard time of it: he had a nervous breakdown, was shipped off to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment, but is back now. and is apparently hale and hearty...
...Democrat'' Memorial Challenge Trophy* and still catch the midnight train home. Thomas also pepped up the show with a rodeo touch: cowgirls racing quarter horses around a cloverleaf barrel course. Another innovation almost anyone could have anticipated: a class for Shetland ponies. No entry named Macaroni though...
J.F.K. could have brought Jackie, Caroline, Macaroni and Bobby with him into Michigan, thrown in the Hollywood "rat pack" as an added bonus, and still not have succeeded in swinging any significant number of Democratic, let alone Republican, votes back to Governor Swainson...
...Trotter. Beyond fashions and fandom, there was action at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that made for a scene straight from Currier & Ives. One morning Jackie bundled Caroline and her nursery-school playmates into their snowsuits and led them out on the White House lawn. There waited Caroline's pony, Macaroni, who had been brought up from Glen Ora and was now hitched to a shiny black sleigh. Everybody piled in, and with Jackie handling the reins, the sleigh went jingling three times around the snowswept grounds. Afterwards, Jackie led Macaroni up to the French doors of the executive office...
...Nelly Custis'). She easily rattled off the names of bygone artists and cabinetmakers, displayed an impressive knowledge of intimate White House history. The Green Room, she noted, "used to be the dining room, and here Jefferson gave his famous dinners and introduced such exotic foods as macaroni, waffles and ice cream to the United States." Woodrow Wilson so detested the stuffed animal heads with which Theodore Roosevelt had adorned the state dining room that he always "seated himself in such a manner that he would not see them while dining." Showing off the Lincoln bed, Jackie remarked dryly: "Every...