Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lead was played by John Goldmark, 46, a Harvard law graduate with a prosperous Okanogan Valley wheat, beef and quarter-horse ranch he bought after getting out of the Navy in 1945. He had been handily elected three times to the state legislature in Olympia, where he rose to chairman of the house ways and means committee. His wife Sally had been a Communist Party member from 1935 until a year after their marriage in 1942, a fact that became public during Goldmark's 1962 re-election campaign...
...work has raised a lot of concern. Dwight Eisenhower recently sent a message urging him to slow down and look after his health. Lady Bird is forever watching his diet; Lyndon, 55 and 6 ft. 3 in., weighs 206 Ibs., and should shed at least ten. At his Texas ranch some weeks ago, his wife ordered chicken for dinner one evening-knowing that it is not one of the President's favorite dishes and that Lyndon probably would not eat too much. At lunch one day last week, Lyndon noticed that his guests got banana pudding for dessert while...
...there was any lingering doubt that Lyndon Johnson likes his press relations on the easygoing side, those doubts were removed last week. The guest list at the L.B.J. ranch seemed to be limited not so much by presidential hospitality, which was boundless, as by the number of correspondents who asked to see the President...
High-Speed Tour. Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Cartoonist Bill Mauldin asked permission to land his own plane on the ranch's landing strip. Permission granted. Scotty Reston of the New York Times called from Phoenix...
Marianne Means, White House correspondent for the Hearst papers, popped in on presidential invitation and had a hard time getting away. Johnson made her add her name, alongside Konrad Adenauer's, Ludwig Erhard's and John F. Kennedy's, to the "friendship stone" embedded in a ranch walk. He insisted that she sit next to him at dinner. Before a flight of three helicopters left the ranch, he sent Presidential Aide Jack Valenti over to pluck Marianne from one chopper and reinstall her in the President...