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• The word on August 5 was that President Johnson had addressed a swarm of students on the White House lawn as “fellow revolutionaries.” Well, the President was misquoted. What he said was, “Hello, fellows, loosen Mary’s.” White House sources said the line was an old fraternal greeting taken from a poem about lodge rituals in ancient Persia, “Sohrab and Rustum,” by Robert Lowell.

• Overheard at the minority telephone office of the House of Representatives: “All I said was, Ray Bliss is a fink. Now the whole House GOP is on my neck. How was I to know Bliss was a Republican?”

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• The word on August 5 was that President Johnson had addressed a swarm of students on the White House lawn as “fellow revolutionaries.” Well, the President was misquoted. What he said was, “Hello, fellows, loosen Mary’s.” White House sources said the line was an old fraternal greeting taken from a poem about lodge rituals in ancient Persia, “Sohrab and Rustum,” by Robert Lowell.

• Overheard at the minority telephone office of the House of Representatives: “All I said was, Ray Bliss is a fink. Now the whole House GOP is on my neck. How was I to know Bliss was a Republican?”