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...July the Party ceased ignoring its Northern backers and began counseling them to remain silent and inert. Henceforth information about the Party was to come only from Jackson, and lobbyists were instructed to refer curious newsmen and delegates "to the Mississippi office." In view of the number of Northern delegates still to be won over, the directive seemed ludicrously impractical. There were however several good reasons...
...Please refer Mr. and Mrs. Barry Goldwater to the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Properly instructed, thevvowed to "worship God every Sunday in His Church." And, from what I read in the press, Lady Bird, Lynda Bird and Luci Baines might also take note of the same instruction...
...Britain refuses to grant it, except under a new constitution that will give the now suppressed black majority a larger share in the government. Southern Rhodesia's white-supremacist Prime Minister Ian Smith rejects the idea and threatens to declare independence from Britain unilaterally, a move his critics refer to as "white uhuru...
...over to a department store and let them dress her. Bird has credited me with teaching her how to dress. But it was the store." (Even today she is no fashion plate. Washington society writers have caught her wearing the same beige turban for months now, and some archly refer to Bird's familiar white chiffon evening dress as her "Vanity Fair nightgown.") Says Lady Bird: "I like clothes. I like them pretty. But I want them to serve me, not for me to serve them-to have an important, but not a consuming part in my life...
...assign men to Europe who are inexperienced in European business, or transfer them out of a country as fast as they learn their way around. Some French businessmen refer to the U.S. practice of shifting executives from job to job and country to country as la valse des directeurs...