Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canine Greeters. In Australia, a fellow Texan-U.S. Ambassador Edward ("Big Ed") Clark-had taken pains to assure a smooth visit for the Johnsons and had a special 7-ft. bed installed for the boss. The Aussies did the rest. "He's a good bloke!" cried one old lady, and Lyndon felt that way about the blokes who lined the roads. Driving into Canberra, the President stopped his motorcade nine times to wade into cheering crowds, keeping Governor General Richard Casey waiting 30 minutes as a result. The performance left Prime Minister Harold Holt...
...book about the U.S.'s Latin American policy. He has never before had any association with the auto industry. But the industry has high hopes for him as a skilled diplomat, a man who knows his way around Washington and, not least, a good friend of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson...
Never a Cipher. In the halcyon 1930s, Geoffrey Parsons was the city's most influential editorial writer; Stanley Woodward ran the best sports page in the business. The city editor was that celebrated Texan Stanley Walker, whom many consider the alltime champion in that trade. Walker issued just two ukases: "Do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade." But he could make some pointed suggestions. A correspondent whose copy lacked enough punctuation once received a full typed page of commas. And in his book, City Editor, Walker wrote, "Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond...
Hand in Hand. Luci's last days as Miss Johnson and her first as Mrs. Nugent were, like Luci herself, a beguiling blend of the gay and the sentimental, the hectic and the religious, the Texan and the presidential. There were parties every day, starting with a reception for the diplomatic corps, progressing through a Western-style cookout to a black-tie dinner dance on the wedding eve, where President Johnson sentimentally declared in a toast that he was "as proud as a man can be when his youngest daughter is doing the most wonderful thing in the world...
With elections coming in the fall, no Congressman was indifferent to such complaints. Neither was President Johnson, who received a delegation led by National Association of Home Builders President Larry Blackmon, a fellow Texan. And along with soothing promises, some action was under...