Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself seems seized by a feeling of self-confidence and assurance that he has not always shown in the past. He is thoroughly at home in the White House. Unlike Lyndon Johnson, Nixon seems to draw an almost visceral comfort from his new habitat. Far from feeling claustrophobically fenced in, as his immediate predecessors often did, Nixon luxuriates in the ambience of privacy and power. For Kennedy and Johnson, "home" always seemed somewhere else. For Nixon, a man without deep geographic roots, home is now the apex to which he aspired for so long...
...White House is the Nixons' home, and like all first families they have quickly put their brand on it. White tie is back for formal occasions. Hard liquor was nowhere to be found at last week's diplomatic reception; the guests were served champagne and church-social punch. During the past eight years, the White House was a slightly manic mansion, with friends, newsmen, relatives, and buddies from old political and real wars bustling in and out. Among the Nixons' guests during their first fortnight were a few personal friends of long standing, such as J. Edgar...
From Blocks Away. Even as the President's message was made public, Washington's rising crime wave was being dramatized only four blocks from the White House, where a bank was held up -Washington's 621st armed robbery during January, twice the 1968 rate...
...steamy Sunday morning last July, Lyndon Johnson assembled 75 friends and aides in the White House movie theater for a 35-minute prayer service conducted by his weekend guest, Evangelist Billy Graham. It was all very informal. Graham read a few verses from the Bible, paid gracious tribute to the Johnsons in a brief sermon, and later joined the impromptu congregation for coffee and small talk in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. The idea for the service was Johnson's. However, when he was told that no similar rite had ever been held in the Executive Mansion, he hastily clamped...
...need not have bothered. In recent weeks, Billy Graham has come on like a White House chaplain-in-residence. Perhaps following the Pauline precept-becoming all things to all men that he might by all means save some-Graham returned to the White House as the Johnsons' guest the weekend before L.B.J. left office. He reappeared at Nixon's inauguration to deliver a prayer that sounded more like a sermon-and was not overly kind to his earlier host at the White House. After all, Graham had urged Nixon to make the race in 1968, and had been...