The Presidency: Business & Busyness

THE PRESIDENCY

Lyndon Johnson plainly was out to show the world that the U.S. has at its helm a President as active and vigorous as ever before. After three weeks in office, he had more than made his point.

Last week, mixing solid business with image-making busyness, Man-in-Motion Johnson was in top form. Although the widow of New York's Herbert H. Lehman had begged the President not to run the security risk, he made a 2-hr. 28-min. descent on Manhattan for the funeral of his ex-Senate colleague, as some 2,500 New York City cops...

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