Word: son-in-law
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...news that the President would not campaign came as a stitch in time to some candidates, such as Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, who faced a close senatorial race with Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's son-in-law, Republican Howard Baker. But most were disappointed. Whatever the degree of Johnson's popularity, a presidential visit usually helps swell the vote -and Democrats, who outnumber Republicans among the nation's 116 million eligible voters by a 2-to-1 margin, figured they would be hurt by a small turnout...
...meticulous realism all his own. The inn in the background of the scene of Blind Pew was modeled on Wyeth's boyhood home in Needham, Mass., where he himself first read Treasure Island. "He was also a man who felt deeply about the tragedy of life," says Son-in-Law Peter Hurd, pointing out that Blind Pew was modeled on a blind man Wyeth knew. Far from mere illustration, it is a profound study of an anguished soul...
...might not be able to finish college, but then he said that I could go back and take courses later." Having reached an affirmative consensus, the Johnsons announced the engagement Christmas Eve. Lyndon Johnson, who must regret having no sons of his own, told friends: "I really like that boy." Soon he was calling Pat "Son-in-Law...
...remain an ordinary citizen, the mantle of First Son-in-Law will inevitably shape his life. He is already, for example, chary of a career in the capital, where almost any job that he might take would leave him and the White House open to charges of influence. In Austin, at least, the newlyweds can take their place comfortably in the provincial squirearchy...
...possible to take it. Or avoid it. Have we a copy of the Bill?" Enough laws are still planted in England. More thinks, for him to stand whatever winds may blow. The sources that tell us of More's life--his books, his letters, the life by son-in-law Roper, those by the mysterious "Ro: Ba:" and by Nicholas Harpsfield, the records of his trial, stray accounts of his execution--these sources show the truth of this view. A point it is, but not the point (nor did Mr. Justice Frankfurter think it was--his words were a comment...