Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immediately after the conspiracy convictions in Alabama, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach telephoned the news to Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. The President had taken a special interest in the case and had even announced on television the trio's arrest the day after Mrs. Liuzzo died. He warned the Ku Klux Klan then that he would bring it to heel. After talking to Katzenbach, Johnson said: "The whole nation can take heart from the fact that there are those in the South who believe in justice in racial matters and are determined not to stand for acts...
...fact that he was still recuperating at his Texas ranch with no definite date for the return to Washington inevitably stirred speculation that Johnson was not recovering as rapidly as he should. Apprehension over his condition quickened after Lyndon flew to Houston to hear Old Friend Billy Graham preach at a mammoth revival meeting. Next day reporters learned that the President was tired and had some muscular pain in his right side...
...that end, the President hopes to hustle both men off to the isolated acres of the LBJ Ranch. There, without retinues of advisers, Johnson hopes to apply his inimitable techniques of suasion to extract from his visitors a reasonable quid...
Alone on the Ranch. Aid to both India and Pakistan was curtailed early in the autumn, during the conflict over Kashmir, in which each side violated its agreement with Washington not to use U.S. arms against the other. India and Pakistan have between them received some $10 billion of U.S. aid in the past 14 years. Yet Pakistan has persisted in cozying up to Red China, all the while ostensibly remaining a partner with the U.S. in the anti-Communist SEATO alliance...
Luci used to have all the fun, but not any more. Her boy friend, Pat Nugent, 22, was down on the ranch for the holiday weekend all right, but things couldn't have been very gay, with Pat going into the reserves any day now. Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, was doing the giggling for a change as she flew off right after turkey dinner to spend the weekend swimming, fishing and water-skiing in Acapulco, Mexico, with Actor (All the Fine Young Cannibals) George Hamilton, 26. Reporters started talking vaguely about romance...