Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mandatory Days. At his lakeside ranch house, Humphrey changed into sports clothes, whiled away the after noon talking to Minnesota friends by phone. Later, he and Muriel returned to Minneapolis, went to a Sheraton-Ritz Hotel suite to listen to returns. There the South Dakota druggist's son who had always wanted to be President, or at the very least Vice President, told a crowd of well-wishers: "I would be less than honest if I didn't say I am very happy and quite excited...
...with L.B.J. A Bavarian brass band clad in lederhosen oompahed California, Here I Come while lusty stein clankers wearing campaign hats and Johnson buttons roared out "Prosit!" But in Paris they were shouting for "Goldwater in '64" as Republicans gathered in a mirrored conference room at the Ritz and collected $1,000 in campaign funds at the first passage...
...hitchhikes. He will stay in hostels or third-class hotels but prefers to bed down in a sleeping bag, never cares what his food is cooked in so long as it is native to the country he is in. The oldtime tourist still holes up at the Ritz and orders three-star meals, but he is vastly outranked by the kids who storm the Continent in increasing numbers every year and leave the U.S. image agreeably altered...
Next day at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the President was greeted by a shouting crowd of 2,500, including a corps of red- white-and blue-costumed high school cuties who billed themselves as "Ladies for Lyndon." At the Minneapolis Sheraton-Ritz Hotel, more than 100 Democrats paid $1,000 each for a presidential cocktail party. Later Lyndon spoke to some 2,000 at a $100-a-plate dinner in the Minneapolis auditorium...
...father to be too proud by half, and to be praised for his faults rather than his virtues. These considerations lend a double pathos to the reading of his letters. He was rich: he was young and successful: and the diamond of his genius seemed as big as the Ritz. But the letters inexorably trace him to a Hollywood hotel where he worried about his weekly rent and Scottie's account at "Peck & Peck & Peck & Peck & Peck." He wondered aloud in letters to his agent, Harold Ober (who coldly cut off his credit), why the price of a Scott...