LBJ’s Dirty Laundry—Winning the War on Wrinkles

So you think you’ve got demanding, high-profile uniform customers? 
 
How do you think you’d handle the situation the Slater-White laundry of San Antonio found itself in when it was laundering President Lyndon B. Johnson’s monogrammed dress shirts?  Why, a missing button or wrinkled appearance might generate a call from the White House, or media gossip.
 
In the photo shown above, laundry owner Orval Slater (left) and supervisor Tom Stuebben (right) appear to give their prestigious client serious—but businesslike—attention. The caption printed under the headline “LBJ’s Shirt Meets the Press” in the May 1964 Linen ...

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