Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Friday Mass, Pat proposed and was accepted. Luci received a ring made from Pat's Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity pin, which she has never worn in public. By the end of the month, headlines predicting their marriage bounced around the world. The President was at the L.B.J. ranch, recuperating from his gall-bladder operation, when Pat and Luci flew there on Oct. 29-presumably to obtain his permission to marry. It was widely surmised in print that the President, in an unusually dour mood, had vetoed their request. The situation evoked memories of Ulysses S. Grant, who brooded...
...family album in 1908. The celebrated passage now hangs, framed, in the replica of his five-room birthplace, which has just been built on the original's decayed foundation. Another bit of memorabilia in the new presidential shrine, which is just a mile from the present L.B.J. ranch: a china-doll clown that was a Christmas present to an aunt from little Lyndon, then four. "He proudly handed it over," burbled a White House press release, "telling her delightedly that it cost a dime and was worth every cent...
After a long Fourth of July weekend on the Texas ranch, Lady Bird Johnson was rarin' to return to Washington and dive back into the elaborate prepara tions for Luci's Aug. 6 wedding. But Lyndon Johnson was in his natural hab itat and, in the absence of any pressing business, had no intention whatever of rushing away. Said he to Lady Bird: "The Cabinet's gone. Congress is home. You and I and [Bill] Moyers would be there all alone." So the visit was ex tended for the rest of the week - a week in which...
...National Asset. The President covets his precious hours along the Pedernales the way a miser covets gold. Because of their effect on him, the 438 sun-baked acres of the L.B.J. ranch may be as much a national asset during the Johnson presidency as all the vaults in Fort Knox. To some 75 reporters attending a ranch barbecue - and John son's first live TV press conference in nearly a year - the President just did not seem the same man who had walked out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue five days before...
Tanned to a healthy leather brown, more affable than he had been in ages, Johnson strolled serenely among the gaily covered tables spread out on the thick Bermuda and St. Augustine grass in front of the ranch house, chatting, sniffing the air, shaking hands, sitting to gobble up a hefty plate of barbecue himself. Muzak wafted with the river breeze through the live oaks, and news men sipped the local Pearl beer and soft drinks...