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Washington Letter on Johnson White House Gala and Pre election chatter
Betty Beale reports from Washington on the Johnson White House editors party with 1100 guests including King Hussein of Jordan. The event featured Johnson hospitality a jazz performance by Dave Brubeck and social mingling with editors spouses amid political jests and receipts of official toasts. The piece weaves in remarks about Sargent Shriver Fletcher Nebel and Luther Terry alongside notes on the King’s tour and social pages from the Washington social circuit.
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Sargent Shriver
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Jerusalem
Fletcher 4Nebel
Women’s National Press Club
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Rockefeller
Shapiro
Lyndon Johnson
Blue Room
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Marine Band
Andrew Jackson
White House
Jordan
Lady Bird Johnson
Johnsons
Hussein
Dave Brubeck
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Gilded East Room
Joe Morello
Huntington Hartford
Mr. Johnson
Henry F. duPonts
Winterthur
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Frank Capra
Laurance H
Armour
Lake Forest
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J. Edgar Hoover
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