Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climax of it all came at a Christmas-day picture-taking session for two busloads of newsmen on the lawn in front of the white clapboard and stone L.B.J. ranch house in Johnson City, Texas. The President mustered more than a score of Baineses, Johnsons and other friends and kinfolk, lined them up and got them to look real pretty for the cameramen. He introduced a few: 'This is Aunt Jessie, Mrs. Jessie Hatcher, who did all my cooking, washing and sewing for me when I was in school in Houston. And I was in her dining room when...
...said. When he knocked, the door was finally opened by a ruffled Lady Bird, who had obviously just finished tidying up. Outdoors again, the President pointed out his 400-acre spread, recalled what Sam Rayburn had said when he first came calling: "I thought it was a big ranch, and it's just a little old farm." He passed out ashtrays bearing his signature: "They only cost a few cents, so they come under the Paul Douglas rule...
...pace ran on into the weekend visit of German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. In advance, Johnson summoned Secretary of State Dean Rusk to the ranch for briefings on German reunification, Berlin, the Common Market and Erhard's attitude toward Russia. But just as much attention was lavished on planning distractions for the Erhard eye and ear: a private piano recital by Texas' own Van Cliburn, a sing-along with a trio of Texas folk singers called the Wanderers Three, and a performance by a local comedian named "Cactus" Pryor. And lying in wait for the Erhard palate were piles...
...drifter in a forthcoming TV episode in hopes that his grandpap's talents were hereditary. At least some of them seem to be, because "Hick" is already a pretty fair rider and roper, used to do it for a living as foreman on his father's Laredo ranch. "Back home in Texas, I made $5 a day," he says. "But here I make $250." So he figures he'll try acting for a while. "If I don't make it," he shrugs, "I can always find something to do-even if I'm flat busted...
...Jersey's Republican Representative Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. is across the street in the old Robert Todd Lincoln house. Republican Senator Kenneth B. Keating of New York is around the corner. The purchase gives Jackie three homes, the others being a house at Hyannis Port and the new, ranch-style home in the ride-to-hounds country around Atoka, Va. On a visit to Atoka last weekend with the children, Jackie formally christened that house Wexford, after the Kennedy ancestral seat in Ireland...