Still grey with campaign fatigue, some 150 newsmen and White House staffers loped around the L.B.J. ranch at L.B.J.'s heels. Victory -vast victory -had cleared the President's face of its recent worried lines; he seemed fresh as a daisy and frisky as a colt.
In the hip pocket of his tan twill trousers, Lyndon carried Barry Goldwater's belated and somewhat snarly telegram of concession. It said: "Congratulations on your victory. There is much to be done with Viet Nam, Cuba, the problem of law and order in this country, and a productive...
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