Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Love that Bomb," Peter had invited her in "for a friendly drinkie." After that it was 16 days of soft-Sellers-"Restaurants and little corners, I'm good at those"-before she flew off to Manhattan. And three days later he popped the question during a $168 phone call "via Telstar." Smiled the smitten bridegroom-to-be: "I've only known her for a few weeks, but I don't think that matters. She is un spoilt and also very dishy...
Both actions followed a gale of White House phone calls to Capitol Hill. As Lyndon Johnson's admirers saw it, the President deserved all the credit for breaking up the legislative ice jam. Others, however, insisted that Lyndon's poking and prodding had little to do with it, that President Kennedy had already laid the groundwork for congressional action. The truth lay somewhere in between...
There was danger in such tactics; the President's aides, in fact, were warning him that he might be dissipating his considerable influence over Congress with too many phone calls and elbow squeezings. "We don't want him to be one of the boys, just another Senator," said one. "We only want to use these calls where they will have maximum impact." But in the case of civil rights and the tax cut, Lyndon Johnson's efforts had IMPACT...
Words About Water. Next day a noisy flap was on about the latest Cuban crisis (see THE HEMISPHERE), but amid countless phone calls to advisers in Washington, Johnson met with top New York Democrats to talk about the coming campaign, lunched with the New York Times editorial board, and when he emerged, gave his Secret Service escort fits by bustling hatless and coatless in the wind and rain across 43rd Street to shake hands with well-wishers behind police barricades. "What are you trying to do," demanded one concerned woman as Johnson approached, "scare everybody?" Johnson responded with a hearty...
...telephone company has bagged its biggest trophy. At 12:01 last Saturday, President Lyndon Johnson's NAtional 8-1414 phone number at the White House was changed clickety-zip to 456-1414. Said an anti-digit dialing partisan bitterly: "Prestigewise...