Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your account of President Johnson's visit to Newark [Oct. 14] implies that his visit was poorly received, and says that "even Newark's Democratic Mayor Hugh Addonizio had left the scene before the presidential motorcade pulled away, L.B.J. had badly mispronounced his name." In fact, the President's reception amazed all except those of us proud to be among his staunchest supporters. Estimates of the crowd ranged from the G.O.P.'s 30,000 to the police's 50,000 and the Democrats' 70,000. At the end of his talk, Johnson was mobbed...
...President's greatest reception awaited him after he crossed the international dateline. At New Zealand's Ohakea Royal Air Force Station, a grimacing Maori with a poised spear advanced on the Johnsons in the traditional "friend or foe?" challenge. In tribute to the first U.S. President to visit his country, the warrior dropped two darts at his feet (Queen Elizabeth rates three...
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...
...lined Johnson's eight-mile route into the city. But as his motorcade approached Hyde Park, several hundred demonstrators were waiting. They were well prepared. Australian intelligence reported that they had intercepted messages from Melbourne Communists advising sympathizers in Sydney on how to disrupt the President's visit. They tried hard enough, pelting the motorcade with toilet paper, black streamers and bomb-shaped balloons, screaming "Go home, fascist pigs!" and trying to hurl themselves in front of the slow-moving limousines...
...flew into Johannesburg last June for a four-day visit frostily ignored by the South African government, New York's Senator Robert Kennedy told the welcoming crowd: "We shall not always agree." That was an understatement, at least as far as the apartheid policymakers were concerned. Last week there was absolutely no agreement when Bobby announced he plans to return next summer at the invitation of Johannesburg's South African Foundation, a private businessmen's group. "Nothing of the sort," snapped a foundation official. "We never invited Kennedy here, and we have no intention of doing...