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Hand in Hand. Luci's last days as Miss Johnson and her first as Mrs. Nugent were, like Luci herself, a beguiling blend of the gay and the sentimental, the hectic and the religious, the Texan and the presidential. There were parties every day, starting with a reception for the diplomatic corps, progressing through a Western-style cookout to a black-tie dinner dance on the wedding eve, where President Johnson sentimentally declared in a toast that he was "as proud as a man can be when his youngest daughter is doing the most wonderful thing in the world...
Quite a task-but Luci Johnson Nugent looked up to it, as she emerged, smiling and sparkling, to drive to the White House in a bubble-top car with her new husband...
...Nugent, a novice at the game of politics, handled the names like a well-briefed pro and made lively small talk to the guests. With obvious relish, the President bestowed kisses on a number of ladies. And, of course, almost everyone wanted to kiss the bride. Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, on crutches, received the most benign of greetings from the President as he came through the line, got his second kiss of the day from Luci. Cooed Luci: "Oh, I could do that all afternoon." Alice Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, whose own dazzling wedding set a White House...
...Right up to the wedding day, bits of hitherto classified information continued to dribble out. Pat disclosed to an interviewer that he was a Democrat after all, despite those rumors that he shared his parents' Republican loyalties. The President himself cleared up the question of how the young Nugents would support themselves while attending the University of Texas. Luci, he said, has an income of her own of undisclosed size and source, and Pat's parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, had set aside some money for their son's graduate-school education. Further, it developed that...
Married. Luci Baines Johnson, 19, and Patrick Nugent, 23; in Washington (see THE NATION...