US Politics - Government

Aug. 08, 1967 - On Honeymoon In London: Arriving in London yesterday for a four day honeymoon, was Mrs Betty Midgley, President Johnson's newly-appointed special assistant for soumer affairs. She is paid 25, 000 dollars a year for the job (about doing television commercials for refrigerators. The President appointed her and she is responsible to him. In fact. she had to ask him for time off to marry Leslie Midgley, a news producer on CBS Television. LBJgave her four days off and an antique etching of the White House. Betty Midgley, is 51, and is full of energy charm and enthusiasm for her job, which is to protect the American public from shoddy consumer goods and dishonest advertising. Complaints about the quality, safety, price or advertising of good come to her. Mrs Midgley was celebrated in the United States even before her White House appointment. As Hollywood actress Betty Furness, she appeared in 35 films, and laster became a star of television commercials. Photo shows Mrs Betty Midgley and her husband, Leslie, pictured in London yesterday

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