Only seven days after he had held his first full-dress news conference live on television, President Johnson summoned reporters on short notice for another. As it turned out, it was more a campaign conference. Reading at an uncharacteristic rapid-fire pace, the President spent fully one-third of the meeting announcing appointments and extolling U.S. accomplishments under his Administration. He talked about the continuing growth of the national economy, which he said was already showing the beneficial effects of the tax cut, and even read a fan letter from the White House mailbag to show that the folks around the country...
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