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Constant Energy. By the time the tour was finished, the girls had handled integrated tea party or segregated breakfast with equal aplomb. They had spoken their piece for people who distrusted Catholics ("The Catholic Church," said Eunice, "does not influence Jack in any way except a religious way"), people who were worried about the oil-depletion allowance, who resented Lyndon Johnson's second place on the ticket. Their energy was a source of constant consternation to everyone who tried to keep up with them. They had hardly arrived at the L.B.J. Ranch for a rest before the Kennedy girls had picked teams for water polo, run through a touch-football game and corralled survivors for a tug of war. By dinnertime they were ready with a skit spoofing the lines they had fluffed along the way. A lone male reporter, almost dismembered during the tug of war, sighed dolefully about the campaign ahead: "If these are the women, what can the men be like?"