Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mark Russell says that the Senator sometimes signs his name "Barry Goldwater, L.B.J." That is, "Little Bit Jewish." Russell, who has been working at Bobby Baker's Carousel motel in Ocean City, Md., and opens at the Shoreham in Washington, B.C., next week, will be taking with him another item that concerns Hubert Humphrey, Phar. D. "The fact that Humphrey has a degree in pharmacy would be very handy," says Russell. "Some hot day, Johnson could say: 'Hubert, make me a malted...
...Line. Throughout the week, Lyndon spent uncounted and uncountable hours on the phone. In Atlantic City his entourage took over all 120 rooms of the newly completed Pageant Motel, across from Convention Hall, as a White House command post. U.S. Army Signal Corpsmen installed a hot line direct to Lyndon. Key Johnson aides carried electronic devices in their pockets that buzzed whenever there was a call from the boss-and there was a lot of buzzing. The contraptions were supposed to work only above ground and within a five-mile radius of the Pageant switchboard. But they were underrated...
...very moment it began, Lyndon landed in Atlantic City and TV followed him to the hall. He paused first for a planeside interview, then 'coptered to a smaller field and finally drove to the Pageant Motel. When the seven seconding speeches finally ended and the delegates roared approval of a motion to nominate Johnson by acclamation, TV showed Lyndon striding into Convention Hall...
Hubert's hopes sagged, but they were revived on Tuesday night, just before the convention started its second session. Humphrey was summoned to Atlantic City's Colony Motel to talk to Johnson's man, Jim Rowe. The President, said Rowe, wanted Humphrey to fly to Washington immediately to accept Lyndon's blessing as the vice-presidential nominee. Unfortunately, the Atlantic City airport was closed down...
There were parties everywhere. The Democratic National Committee hosted a "Salute to Women Doers," at which some 2,000 guests waited 90 minutes to hear bug-eyed Broadway Star Carol Channing belt out the official Democratic campaign song, Hello, Lyndon! Maine's delegation caucused around their motel-headquarters pool one morning, met again that night to whoop it up until the wee hours. The Texas delegation honored Governor John Connally with a Dior-and diamond-filled bash at Atlantic City's aging Haddon Hall, and the New Jersey host delegation gave cocktail parties on three successive afternoons...