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...weekend, April 30 through May 2, will include a dance on Friday night with Bo Diddley and Harry Marshard's orchestra; on Saturday a picnic, a concert with Joe and Eddie, dance, and a late movie; and a Sunday Glee Club concert...
Johnson's press troubles have burgeoned until they have become a major news story in themselves. Gone is much of the easy informality of the early days of his Administration when Johnson met and joshed with reporters, invited them and their families to a picnic on the White House lawn. Though he still calls reporters in for occasional off-the-cuff conferences, Johnson's affair with the press as a whole has temporarily soured. Reporters have begun to reminisce nostalgically about the Eisenhower and Kennedy years when press conferences were regularly scheduled well ahead of time and there...
McNamara-who lopped off a cool $8 billion. In December, the J.C.S. members and McNamara all flew to the LBJ Ranch, where the President, sitting at a picnic table near the banks of the Pedernales River, heard them out. McNamara explained that he and the Chiefs were "98% agreed" on the budget-it was that other 2% that mattered. Each Chief explained why his service needed more money than McNamara wanted to allow. When it was all over, the President agreed with his Defense Secretary, and McNamara's cuts were reflected in the $49 billion military budget sent...
...listen or to search as he worked on his State of the Union message and the budget. All week long his Cabinet officers and budget advisers trooped in and out of the Texas spread with dollar signs dancing in their heads. For newsmen, Lyndon pointed out two brown picnic tables in the yard at which he and his advisers had worked on the budget. "That's where you lost billions of dollars this week," he chuckled. "That's where I got the budget down, and a suntan-right there." Whether, as Lyndon has been hoping, the final budget...
...hats sell best in heavily Catholic neighborhoods (the women wear them to Mass). In New Haven, an Ivy League town, women go for tailored clothing. Power lawn mowers move fastest in Atlanta (where lawns are big), but not at all in San Francisco (where lawns are small); picnic tablecloths do not go in San Francisco, either-too windy. His-and-her shirts sell well only in Toledo, Kansas City and Atlanta; isometric bars for exercising sell well only in New York and San Francisco...