Word: matings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's attention to detail is such that not only did he decree the nomination of Hubert Humphrey as his running mate, but he picked the people to deliver Humphrey's nominating and seconding speeches in order to show the broadest party unity. Chosen to nominate Humphrey was Hubert's junior Senate colleague from Minnesota, Eugene McCarthy, who had been led to believe that he himself might be tapped for second place on the national ticket. McCarthy got the assignment from White House Aide Walter Jenkins. He acceded reluctantly, and his speech was barely perfunctory in praise...
...convention's motto. He chose Hello, Dolly! sung to the words "Hello, Lyndon!" as the convention's theme song. He dictated the schedule and rejiggered it whenever he felt like it. He directed all the performers, worked to sustain suspense over his choice of a running mate, added excitement with his own Atlantic City appearances...
...podium, with Lady Bird and daughters Luci and Lynda Bird standing beside him throughout, Lyndon "suggested" to the delegates that they select Humphrey as his running mate, then took a seat and waited restlessly, often in apparent boredom, while the convention approved his choice...
Cynical sophisticates find it hard to believe, but Lady Bird's life is totally dominated by a genuine devotion to her role as Lyndon Johnson's mate. She is the traditional countrywoman, the wife who by her very nature tunes all her labor and all her love to harmonize with the ambitions of her husband. In the tradition of Southern plantation patriarchies, Lyndon Johnson is head of the family-period. And as he himself admits, "I'm not the easiest man to live with." He strongly influences her tastes -in clothes, coiffure and makeup. He has been...
...last week: "I'll get along with you fellows all right. You've got to eat and I've got to eat." Yet Republican National Committee members are under orders from the new Goldwater-appointed chief, Dean Burch, not to talk to newsmen. And Running Mate Miller says that "to avoid misquotation," Goldwater will stress television speeches and de-emphasize press conferences...