At the quiet little (pop. 1,379) town of Whitney, in the rolling hills of central Texas, U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson last week made his first political speech since he was stricken with a heart attack last July. To the 1,510 Texans at a Democratic fund-raising dinner in the Whitney high school gymnasium, the most absorbing word from Johnson was his call for unity and loyalty among Texas Democrats, who switched to Dwight Eisenhower by the thousands in 1952. But another facet of the Senate majority leader's speech alerted politicians in Washington and...
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