Word: nugents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luci Baines Johnson proved no exception. "I only want," she said last month, "as personal a wedding as possible in the circumstances in which I find myself." In reality, Luci's wedding to Patrick Nugent this week will be a semimonarchical event, a marital marathon to which, as Comedienne Edie Adams quips, "nobody is invited except the immediate country." It could hardly be otherwise in an age of ubiquitous journalistic surveillance and omnivorous curiosity about the day-to-day doings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And Lyndon Johnson has gone farther than most Presidents to share his progeny, pets, predilections...
...Viet Nam. Gerard will be best man in absentia; his father, Gerard Sr., will stand proxy for him. And so, after a ceremony of 60 minutes, Miss Luci Baines Johnson of the White House and Johnson City, Texas, will become the lawful wedded wife of Mr. Patrick John Nugent of Waukegan, Ill., a town hitherto famed mostly for the fact that it was the birthplace of Jack Benny...
...choice of a husband, Luci breaks another White House tradition. Without exception, her seven predecessors as White House brides took husbands who were mature, professionally established, wealthy, patrician, or all four.* By contrast, Pat, 23, has a modest background and an uncharted future. His parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, have lived for 25 years in a small orange bungalow with fake-brick siding in a blue-collar Waukegan neighborhood. Gerard Nugent, district sales manager for a mutual-fund distributor, is of Irish descent. Mrs. Nugent's antecedents are Lithuanian. They sent their tall, athletic son to parochial grammar...
Most unpleasant of all were the digs in Congress and newspaper columns about Pat Nugent's rather minimal military service in the Air National Guard,* at a time when hundreds of thousands of young Americans were serving in Viet Nam. (Lynda's beau, Actor George Hamilton, has not helped in the image department either with his deferment as his mother's sole source of support.) After completing basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, Airman Third Class Nugent became vulnerable to further criticism by arranging a transfer to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington...
...regular assignment was to work in a clerical section under a Negro master sergeant. His superiors and buddies alike were unanimous in pronouncing him a regular guy and a hard worker. He handled requests for interviews by not giving any. He was photographed on KP duty, and pictures of Nugent tromping down garbage and washing dishes got wide circulation...