Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after cantankerous Congressman John Rooney got home to Brooklyn from an "inspection trip" of Latin American embassies, he got an important telephone call. "John," crooned Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson to the chairman of a House subcommittee that handles State Department funds, "the President-elect would like to see you down in Palm Beach next week. Can you make it?" When Rooney allowed that he could indeed, Lyndon Johnson made his own plans to be there too. To muddy up the purpose of the trip, he brought along Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr, Johnson's probable successor as chairman...
Vaguely aware that the trip had something to do with his perennial pruning of ambassadorial expense allowances (he calls them "booze allowances"), Rooney flew down on schedule, found himself hoteled (at Kennedy's expense) in a luxurious suite at the Palm Beach Towers. Next morning a comely Kennedy secretary drove him from the hotel, prattled through a guided tour of Joe Kennedy's cream-colored villa before depositing him in the library. There was a suitable moment's wait, then in strode Jack, followed shortly by Lyndon, Kerr and incoming Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. (Notably absent: future...
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Mickey Rooney is a particularly sulky sulky rider in "The Money Driver," a melodrama about harness racing...
...Skelton Special (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Red roams an imaginary Hollywood Boulevard, bumps unaccountably into Dinah Shore, Jack Paar, Mickey Rooney and George Raft...
...Perry Como Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Perry's guests: Clooney and Rooney. Color...