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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...
...Medical Center in Boston, more than an hour away. The President flew to Boston, walked grimly past a crowd of well-wishers outside the hospital, donned a white gown and mask to see Patrick. He conferred anxiously with doctors, then left for the Kennedy family suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
Toward Despair. Late that afternoon, Kennedy wearily returned to the Ritz, called Jackie and told her for the first time how serious the situation was. Then he made another visit to the hospital, returned to dine alone at the hotel, called before he headed for the hospital again. His brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Kennedy Confidant Dave Powers joined the President there...
They seldom stop at Rome's elegant Hotel Excelsior, nor do they drink at the Ritz Bar in Paris. In London, they would not dream of dining at Claridge...