During a White House tea for top Government employees' wives one afternoon last week, Mrs. Alan Boyd, wife of the Civil Aeronautics Board chairman, slipped away to the Lincoln bedroom to watch the televised presidential press conference that was going on downstairs in the East Room. There on the screen was Lyndon Johnson, playing his much-relished role of master of ceremonies. He was introducing, one by one, somewhat in the manner of Ed Sullivan, eight new Administration appointees. Suddenly Mrs. Boyd gasped. There, smiling out at the camera, was the ruggedly handsome...
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