![]() ![]() Benchley wanted to be near New York, and the family eventually got a house at Pennington, New Jersey in 1970. Once Johnson's term ended in 1969, the Benchleys moved out of Washington, and lived in various houses, including an island off Stonington, Connecticut where son Clayton was born in 1969. Johnson, and saw the birth of his daughter Tracy. In 1967 he became a speechwriter in the White House for President Lyndon B. By then Benchley was in New York, working as television editor for Newsweek. While dining at an inn in Nantucket, Benchley met Winifred "Wendy" Wesson, whom he dated and then married the following year, 1964. Following his return to America, Benchley spent six months reserve duty in the Marine Corps, and then became a reporter for The Washington Post. The experience was told in his first book, a travel memoir titled Time and a Ticket, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1964. ![]() After graduating from college in 1961, Benchley travelled around the world for a year. ![]()
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