Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruffles and flourishes started the visit on the White House South Lawn. "Enemies of peace and foes of freedom still move in the world," Johnson told his short, slim visitor by way of greeting. "But their chance to prevail is a much lesser chance now because of the response that was made in Korea by those United Nations which showed a decent respect for the values-as well as the opinions-of all mankind. We welcome this strength that your land offers now to the defense of freedom, not only in Korea but in Viet Nam as well...
...were trundled in from Cologne for a state reception for 2,500 at Augustusburg Castle. It was all part of the feverish preparations for the eleven-day, 1,200-mile tour by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of ten West German cities, the first state visit by a reigning British monarch since Edward VII paid his last call on Kaiser Wilhelm...
...meant to be more, even, than a state visit. Officially, it was the formal return of the visit by Germany's late President Theodor Heuss to Buckingham Palace in 1958. The glacial response he got then and the deep-rooted hostility many Britons still harbor toward their wartime enemies delayed the return engagement seven years, until German protocol officials had privately given up hope. Finally, last spring the Conservative government decided to find out whether the past was indeed past, and last fall incoming Prime Minister Harold Wilson concurred. As Chancellor Ludwig Erhard put it, the royal visit...
...Smile More, Your Majesty." Elizabeth and Philip, who between them have at least as much German blood as English, seemed the model monarchs for such an undertaking.* Yet somehow the visit got off to a chilly start as heavy rains and mothball size hailstones pelted the top-hatted German Cabinet, waiting with President Heinrich Lübke and Erhard for Elizabeth's airplane to touch down at the Bonn-Cologne airport. The sun came out before she landed, but squishing along the soggy red carpet, and then splashing through puddles to inspect her 270-man guard of honor from...
...clubs hang on to their traditions. At the Porcellian back in the late fifties, eyebrows were raised and throats cleared in indignation when the President of the United States was brought to the club as a guest. The Porcellian, you see, has a rule that no guest may visit the club more than once in his life-time. President Eisenhower, some of the indignant members raged, had visited the club once before when head of the Allied Forces