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Pearl Bailey with President and Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson, November 6, 1967.
Credit: Image Donated by Corbis-Bettmann
At a special performance of the musical, Hello Dolly! in Washington D. C., Pearl Bailey waved to President Lyndon Johnson in the audience, announced, "I didn't know this child was going to show up," and then playfully reduced the leader of the Free World to chorus boy, coaxing him to the stage for a reprise of the show's title song.