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17 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“Cheeseborger, cheeseburger, cheeseborger. No Coke — Pepsi.” John Belushi, SNL 1978
Note portrait of Spiro Agnew on wall.
“No fries — cheeps."
Wheaton, Illinois, is known for John Belushi, Bob Woodward and Billy Graham.

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14 Mar
Had he survived, would Robert Kennedy have been nominated and elected President in 1968?
RFK was an astounding candidate in 1968 and would have had a formidable chance to beat Richard Nixon, but he knew that the Democratic convention in Chicago would be tough because, under the old rules, LBJ, as party leader, still controlled an awful lot of those delegates.
Remember how easily LBJ, operating by telephone from his ranch, was able to block any anti-Vietnam War platform plank at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
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7 Mar
White House Red Room, decorated by B. Altman’s department store of New York, about 1960, one of the rooms that looked to Jackie Kennedy like public room of a Statler Hilton and moved her to undertake her restoration: Image
One of President Nixon’s favorite DC restaurants was Trader Vic’s, at Statler Hilton near White House: Image
Almost looks like portrait of Conrad Hilton over the Red Room fireplace.
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7 Mar
Municipal Auditorium, Austin, Texas, waiting for arrival of President and Mrs. Kennedy, November 22, 1963: Image
Austin banquet hall staged for “Texas Welcome Dinner” for JFK and Jackie, evening of November 22, 1963: Image
For JFK's final Texas banquet, in Austin, November 22, 1963, eight thousand steaks had been ordered by LBJ’s favored caterer, Walter Jetton, “King of Barbecue”: Image
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6 Mar
Walter Cronkite’s last broadcast of the “CBS Evening News"
was forty years ago tonight:
Walter Cronkite got interview with JFK on Cape Cod for his first thirty-minute edition of CBS Evening News, extended from fifteen minutes, September 1963:
President Harry Truman gives Walter Cronkite a tour of his newly-renovated White House, 1952:
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6 Mar
White House Fish Room (now Roosevelt Room) under JFK displayed mounted head from deer hunt that LBJ compelled him to go on at LBJ Ranch (Johnson suggested that Kennedy display the deer head in Oval Office) and billfish JFK caught on 1953 Acapulco honeymoon with Jackie:
No, Mexico did not pay for the fish caught on JFK’s honeymoon.
At left on the desk in the photograph of JFK’s Fish Room is an old invention called a “typewriter."
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4 Mar
Not every ex-Vice President tries to cozy up to the ex-President who seemed OK letting him be in danger of assassination.
Almost looks as if Trump is letting Pence be “cancelled."
Since our children are watching, it’s not a bad thing for our national leaders to demonstrate the personal quality of self-respect.
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