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150 Scalpels. The operation's success brought a wave of relief-and some good-natured jokes. According to one, Lyndon had ordered his surgeon to use 150 scalpels so he could pass them out to Congressmen in lieu of pens. Another averred that, immediately on awakening, Lyndon aimed to...
Sir: There is something pathetically juvenile in the President's having to distribute souvenir pens to grown men after signing a bill [Aug. 20]. The pen he gives out has no meaning; it reminds one of a birthday party at which each small child has to "get something" to...
As the legislation he had sought rolled in a steady stream from Capitol Hill last week, an ebullient Lyndon Johnson invited just about everyone in Washington to "come on down to the signin'." In all, he signed five new bills and dispensed no less than 600 souvenir pens worth...
Next, Johnson went to the President's Room of the Capitol, a small but ornate room with a large gilt chandelier near the Senate chamber. It was in that room, 104 years before to the very day, that President Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves forced into the...
Passing out souvenir pens by the passel, Johnson explained that he had hastened to sign the bill "because we just cannot overemphasize and we cannot overdramatize and we cannot overreact to this nation's growing problem of water supply." He used the northeastern drought as an example of how...