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...travelling White House staff member handles every minor detail. One man, for example, is responsible for taking care of the Presidential seal, and he places it on the rostrum before the President arrives. Another manually operates the teleprompter President Johnson uses to read his prepared texts. (Whenever the President leaves the text in the middle and skips a sizeable portion before he returns to it, the teleprompter operator must frantically catch up with...
...family had taken over for the week from Hess Rosenbloom, brother of the owner of the Baltimore Colts. He entered Convention Hall after the eulogies of John F. Kennedy, Sam Rayburn and Eleanor Roosevelt had ended. As he sat down in the presidential box overlooking the speaker's rostrum, Lyndon was the absolute monarch of the place, and he looked it-hands on his knees, elbows akimbo, face impassive...
Striding to the rostrum for his own acceptance speech, Lyndon knew that it was getting late and that the primetime televiewers would soon be flicking off their sets. He unstrapped his wristwatch, held it up to silence the cheers. "I accept your nomination," he began. "I accept the duty of leading this party to victory." When he added, "I thank you for placing at my side the man you; so wisely selected to be the next Vice President," the delegates burst into laughter. Even Lyndon had to smile...
...Show. The next night Lyndon returned to the convention to deliver his acceptance speech. But Humphrey spoke first, and in the process stole the show from the old show-stealer himself. Lyndon sat in the presidential box, by turns looking statesmanlike, preoccupied, annoyed, and just plain bored. On the rostrum Humphrey all but brought down the rafters...
...Little Stars." As it turned out, Bobby was the central figure of the most emotional occasion of the convention. It took place when he stepped up to the convention rostrum to introduce the J.F.K. film, A Thousand Days. As Bobby stood there, a small, grim figure, delegates in the rear of the hall stood up, cheering. Within seconds, the ovation surged all over the huge hall. Bobby tried several times to talk. But every time he said "Mr. Chairman," the applause grew louder. Finally Bobby smiled hesitantly, looked down, bit his lip. The demonstration, entirely spontaneous, lasted for 13 minutes...