Word: okamoto
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WHEN Lyndon Johnson's personal effects were trucked out of the White House, they contained at least 500,000 pictures of the President, his family and subordinates, taken by L.B.J.'s ubiquitous official photographer, Yoichi Okamoto, 54. Okamoto had served the President as a sort of benign paparazzo during the White House years, recording most of L.B.J.'s waking moments and some of his sleeping ones, too. The photographer was a familiar sight at every Cabinet meeting, every National Security Council meeting. Johnson wanted Okamoto with him constantly, taking pictures of L.B.J. with Congressmen, L.B.J. with Kosygin...
Nixon's reserve does not indicate an increase in White House secrecy, says Atkins. Despite Okamoto's constant presence, Johnson was always very careful about which photos were released, screening each shot personally. "If a picture was disapproved, it would disappear forever," says Atkins. Nixon, in contrast, leaves such matters to Atkins. "You can photograph Nixon up and down, front and back," says Atkins. "He doesn't care...
There are miles of films of L.B.J. in action given by television networks and more than 500,000 pictures of the President snapped by ubiquitous White House Photographer Yoichi Okamoto and two assistants. Mrs. Johnson has preserved home movies of him campaigning for Congress in 1937, and there is treasured footage shot by her husband as a World War II Navy lieutenant commander aboard the Flying Fortress Swoose when it crash-landed in Australia in 1942. This plethora of memorabilia and trivia, together with hundreds of official gifts from visiting dignitaries, will be housed in a special Johnson library...
Back in Washington after two days of arduous picture taking during the funeral of Konrad Adenauer, Lyndon Johnson's White House photographer, Yiochi Okamoto, 51, was visibly jumpy when reporters asked him about his boss's meeting with Charles de Gaulle. Okie was the only other American present when the President got together with De Gaulle in a private room in the West German Bundestag for the first time after 31 troubled years. Well, persisted the newsmen, how would Okie describe the momentous event? "It was," he replied succinctly, "f/2 at 1/30...