After a whirlwind tour of the West with Campaigner Lyndon B. Johnson, CBS Correspondent Dan Rather got back to Washington for a breather. There, his boss, News Director William Small, wanted to know how the campaign seemed to be going. Rather could not say. At today's pace, he explained, "you don't have time to get the sense, the smell of the campaign. You whip in and whip out."
That pace is up to 550 m.p.h., or the cruising speed at which jetliners carry the candidate to his next crowd. If he is willing...
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