The cabin of their chartered Convair was carefully stocked with smelling salts and tranquilizers, the engines were checked and the tanks were topped off. The travelers were ready to go. Then someone realized that they had not alerted the pilot. That little matter attended to, Lyndon Johnson's wife Lady Bird, Jack Kennedy's sister Eunice, and Bobby Kennedy's wife Ethel left Washington last week and headed West on the first all-female foray of the presidential campaign. Disturbed by reports of Texas' growing unhappiness with Lyndon Johnson for supporting the liberal civil rights...
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