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...from Manchester's own judgment-or lack of it. The record indicates that Lyndon Johnson was every inch the gentlemanly sympathizer during those tense moments in Dallas and later in Washington. Jackie wrote several letters to Johnson after the assassination, reported the Chicago Daily News, that "contradict the account of Mr. John son's behavior toward the grief-stricken widow." In addition, Johnson's statement to the Warren Commission shows his sensitive concern for Jackie at a time when he still was not sure about his own safety or the country...
...subcommittee would investigate spending by all House committees and 2) the panel inserted in its record three journalistic articles on congressional travels, including a 1960 LIFE story reporting that Hays himself once charged 47 trips from Washington to his home area to a taxpayer-paid congressional account...
STUDENT: I know. "Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must be taken into account...
Perfect Charade. "Intentional discharges" account for 40% of all shooting incidents, according to a study made by British Columbia's fish and game department; the rest are accidental, and 80% of the accidents are "the result of sheer carelessness." A common case is the hunter who drops his loaded rifle to the ground, and bang! - scratch one hunter. Last fall a nervous Texan tried to club a wounded opossum to death with the butt of his rifle and shot himself in the stomach on the first swing. In October, a Colorado hunter tried to demonstrate a fast draw...
This hastily published, obviously much-ghosted "personal" account of I Sheppard's twelve-year fight for vindication suggests that he has the right to another complaint against newspapers: they left him nothing new to say. Except for a few personal letters to members of his family and a number of commonplace recollections of prison life, he seems unable to dredge up anything about his case that will any longer interest the reader...