THE CONGRESS: A Serious Condition

At the holiday weekend, Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson left the Mayflower hotel apartment of his friend and colleague, Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George (who was recovering from bronchial trouble), and slipped behind the wheel of his blue Chrysler. He drove alone, through the stifling Washington heat, across the Potomac and 40 miles into Virginia to "Huntlands," the rolling estate of George Brown, Houston contractor and lavish contributor to Johnson's political campaigns. It was a trip from which Lyndon Johnson would return in a few hours—in an ambulance. He had suffered a coronary occlusion; doctors said his condition was serious.

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