Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table seat like a Rotary Club regular, ate filet mignon (rare) while 480 paying guests struggled with minute steak. He chatted amiably with tablemates, helped pass along scribbled suggestions from the floor for his own postdessert question-and-answer session to Press Club President John V. Horner of the Washington Evening Star. No sooner did the questions start than radio mikes opened, three television cameras blinked red, and a daytime audience of millions began watching the second live-TV presidential press conference in U.S. history (the first: in San Francisco during the 1956 G.O.P. national convention...
...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson from wife Lady Bird Johnson came bad news on the L.B.J. front: Little Beagle Johnson, 7, pet of Lucy Baines Johnson, 11, had not come home for dinner. Alert reporters sounded alarms all over Washington, carried the stray's description into New Hampshire Avenue Animal Hospital, where an unidentified motorist had left a slightly battered beagle. Sure enough, it was the Johnson dog. The good word, couriered to the head of the family at a Democratic Steering Committee session, raised relieved senatorial cheers all around. Recovering after cortisone treatment for shock, and eased...
Closing out a nine-day tour that took him from Washington to six other U.S. cities. Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan last week returned to the nation's capital. His trip had been a smashing success-from his viewpoint. For behind him Anastas Mikoyan left scores of well-meaning Americans who, failing to realize that he had not backed up an inch on any basic Kremlin position (see box), had mistaken his warm smile as tokening a real thaw in the cold...
...Back in Washington, Mikoyan was greeted by still more Americans certain he had peace proposals packed away in his portfolio. Lunching on steak with members of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mikoyan waxed expansive on the Rapacki plan for neutralizing Germany, suggested that Russian and Western troops each withdraw 500 miles from Berlin. Such a retreat, leaving the Russians comfortably on their own soil, the U.S. uncomfortably somewhere west of Paris, had twice before been urged by the Russians, twice before been rejected by the West. Nonetheless, Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who had met Mikoyan during his headlined Kremlin...
Next morning Mikoyan, wearing a red, white and blue muffler against the 20° Washington weather, stepped out of a Soviet embassy Cadillac at the White House. Said John Foster Dulles: "We've got some of your Moscow weather." Dulles introduced Mikoyan to President Eisenhower, and for an hour and 45 minutes the three discussed Germany, world trade and disarmament. As in previous conferences, neither side budged. Mikoyan's whole approach, said a White House aide later, was "the same old cracked record...