Word: nugents
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...young back through the years to luxuriate, if only briefly, in their own memories. Last week millions of Americans took this trip to reverie, propelled by the nationalized nuptials of Luci Baines Johnson, the first daughter of an incumbent President to marry in 31 years, and Patrick John Nugent, the boy from Waukegan, Ill., who brashly wooed...
...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...
...President's daughter, Pat replied succinctly: "I've never been engaged before." Nor, for that matter, has he ever previously been identified with the Democrats. No one will say whether Pat inherited his parents' Republican sympathies or how he voted in 1964-although Tillie Nugent offers the diplomatic guess that her son plumped for his future father-in-law. The suspicion remains that a crypto-Republican is marrying into the Johnson family. As Cartoonist Fischetti had a friend telling the President: "You're not losing a daughter, you're gaining a vote...
...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...