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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...
...Plump Raisin. Pat's publicity problems were the least of the White House headaches. As the months ticked off, Social Secretary Bess Abell, Distaff Press Secretary Liz Carpenter and their combined staffs of seven became al most totally engrossed in nuptial arrangements, letting routine social functions pretty much run themselves. Mrs. Carpenter coped with staggering demands for invitations and information from all over the world. She also worked out an embargo system and a schedule of minutia-laden releases in order to control the flow of information. Last week's wedding-cake handout was replete with detail, down...
Crypto-Republican? Pat's discretion with the press obviously pleases the White House. "It's Luci's wedding," he maintains. When pressed, he has insisted: "This is my private life and I will not discuss it." Once, venturing a little further than usual when asked what it was like to be betrothed to a 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...
...schools that give salaries." Insisting nonetheless that they would support themselves, she confided that her fiance "has pretty much saved up because we haven't been going places, and we feel as though we can make it with what we both have right now." In all probability, Pat will work several hours a day at KTBC, the Johnson family TV station in Austin...
Regular Guy. Pat, meanwhile, has reacted stoically to the brouhaha. In his few appearances at public functions with Luci he has displayed studied sang-froid and said exactly what his position called for: virtually nothing. Luci's fiancé, an acquaintance observed, has "a chameleon personality that allows him to fit in anywhere...