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This day in 1966 saw the first wedding in the Great Upper Church of Washington, D.C.\u2019s National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, when Luci Baines Johnson married Patrick Nugent. The daughter of then-President Lyndon, she converted to Catholicism the day after her eighteenth birthday. Described as \u201cthe social event of 1966,\u201d there was much speculation over where the wedding would be held. The New York Times declared that the Shrine would be the perfect choice, insisting that there was no place in Washington \u201cthat could offer a setting for a bridal spectacular like the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.\u201d The historian of the Shrine calls it \u201cthe greatest publicity coup in the shrine\u2019s history.\u201d <\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Daughter Married at National Shrine, 1966<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This day in 1966 saw the first wedding in the Great Upper Church of Washington, D.C.\u2019s National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, when Luci Baines\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mcnamarasblog\/2009\/08\/president\u2019s-daughter-married-at-national-shrine-1966.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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