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...hymn be played as the casket was carried up the Capitol steps. She invited the Navy Choir and Tenor Luigi Vena, who had sung at her wedding, to sing at the cathedral. Recalling that Jack had recently marveled at an exhibition by Britain's Royal Highland "Black Watch" Regiment at the White House, had enjoyed Ireland's "Irish Guards" on his trip abroad last June, she asked for both. She suggested that the U.S. Air Force's own ceremonial bagpipers appear at Arlington, wailing off over a hill in an exit similar to one that had thrilled...
...Capital Party Giver Perle Mesta). With Daughters Lynda Bird (now 19) and Lucy Baines (16) growing up, the Johnsons provided all comforts. Lady Bird piped Muzak into every room, built a heated $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard, stocked two freezers with enough prime Texas steaks for a regiment. Johnson traveled more than any other Vice President-to Asia, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, around the world-and Lady Bird always went along...
Next day, Jack, Jackie and the kids played host to 2,000 underprivileged Washington children, who downed 200 gallons of cocoa and 10,000 sugar cookies while a detachment of Scotland's famed Black Watch Regiment of bagpipers skirled and twirled on the White House lawn. It was the beginning of Jackie's official appearances after the death of two-day-old Patrick Bouvier Kennedy last August...
...sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than the Grand Turk. He commanded a regiment in a foreign army...
...excitement over a single regiment is a symptom of what Washington calls NATO's "double standard." German fears are understandable, but Europeans in general, Washington feels, expect the U.S. to meet its NATO commitments as a matter of course, while never coming near to fulfilling their own obligations in the alliance. As one U.S. official told reporters last week: "For a long time NATO has been a 20-mule-team wagon, with one mule pulling and the others sitting in the wagon. It is time for them to get out and pull...