Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard-Earned Moments. The moments of relaxation are hard earned, and the President more and more tries to find them away from the gaze of press and public. One evening last week he slipped away from the White House for a three-hour dinner cruise down the Potomac on the presidential yacht PatrickJ .; the identity of his companions was kept secret. He watched two movies, Tiger Bay and Expresso Bongo, in the White House projection room. And still another night he ordered up a batch of mystery novels for his bedtime reading (the President also recently reread Alfred Duff Cooper...
...program on a firm base of at least five years is the surest way of improving both administration and effectiveness. He even made certain that such aid foes as Louisiana's Representative Otto Passman and Brooklyn's John Rooney were exposed to a soothing sunset on the Potomac by including them in the Mount Vernon reception for President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan (see The Capital...
Highlight of Ayub's busy week was his first night in Washington, when he was guest of honor at Jackie Kennedy's imaginative fête champêtre at Mount Vernon. The silty Potomac glittered golden in the setting sun as 138 guests boarded four flower-laden boats (each with its own musicians) for the 15-mile cruise to George Washington's sprawling estate. The ladies had been instructed to wear short dresses (the better to clamber about Mount Vernon's expansive lawn), and the men wore white dinner coats-except, unaccountably-the clothes-conscious...
...some Washington observers, it seemed singularly inappropriate to entertain a friendly Japanese dignitary aboard a ship, even if the ship's name happened to be the Honey Fitz and not the U.S.S. Missouri. To other Washingtonians, any sort of Potomac cruise just seemed like a big bore. Asked one wag: "What's duller than a boat ride down the Potomac?" The answer: "The boat ride back...
Polite Phrases. Next morning he splashed through a downpour without raincoat to lay white gladioli and yellow chrysanthemums at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then sat next to former President Dwight Eisenhower at a White House luncheon. Back in the rain, he cruised the choppy Potomac for two hours with Kennedy on the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. Before leaving the U.S., Ikeda addressed the House of Representatives and flew on to New York, where, in polite phrases, he issued a clear warning: U.S. restrictions against Japanese products can hurt the Japanese economy-and that economy is vital...