Word: veep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Progeny of the official presidential family were converging on the altar at such a great rate that L.B.J. threw a White House dinner for the whole brood: Veep Hubert Humphrey's son Robert, 22, and Fiancee Donna Erickson, 21; Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara's daughter Margaret, 24, and Fiance Barry Carter, 24; and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's son Richard, 27, and Fiancee Margaret Ann Hickman. Before the week was out, Bob Humphrey, a senior at Minnesota's Mankato State College, and Donna, a former Miss Hastings, Minn., proceeded to the next step. Amid pealing...
...Veep Javits...
Looking at the Veep...
Since 1909 almost a score of bills has been introduced to establish a litfle White House for the veep, but all have died. Now the movement has been given a boost by L.B.J., who knows the problem from firsthand experience. Naturally, everyone has his own idea of what kind of house the Humphreys need. Senator George Smathers has introduced a bill that would make a vice-presidential residence out of Admiral's House, a 14-room mansion just off Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row, now assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations. Another bill, by Democrat Mike Monroney...
...President of the United States." Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Hubert Humphrey is going around asking audiences: "The question before the electorate is simple, prophetic, profound-which of these men, Lyndon Johnson or Barry Goldwater, do you want to have his hand on the nuclear trigger?" (As against that, G.O.P. Veep Nominee William Miller says that by the time a NATO commander under attack got in touch with Johnson to see if he could use nuclear weapons, it "might be too late if he had to get Lyndon on the phone driving his car at 100 miles an hour in Texas...