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...developed a scratchy throat and cough. On Friday night-with Lady Bird and Lynda gone, and Luci Baines out on a date-the President was pretty much alone in the White House and, according to aides, feeling a little sorry for himself. The White House physician, Rear Admiral George Burkley, gave him aspirin, some Declomycin and a dose of "the brown mixture," a generation-old cough remedy...
...President called Burkley again, complained of heavy coughing and pains in his throat and chest, and Burkley decided that it would be best to send Johnson to the hospital. Luci, who had just come home from her date, climbed into the ambulance with her father and got a room near his at the hospital...
...plane's sweltering, gold-carpeted "living room" was crowded with 27 people. At Johnson's right was his wife Lady Bird. Behind them ranged White House staff members; Larry O'Brien and Kenneth O'Donnell were in tears; the shirt cuffs of Rear Admiral George Burkley, President Kennedy's personal physician, bore bloodstains. Federal District Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a trim, tiny woman of 67 whom Kennedy had appointed to the bench in 1961, pronounced the oath in a voice barely audible over the engines. Johnson, his left hand on a small black Bible...
...President has been under the care of a new personal physician for more than a year. He is Rear Admiral George G. Burkley, 60, who took over the job from Dr. Janet G. Travell of rocking chair fame. First official notice of Burkley's new title as White House Physician came last week with the publication of the latest edition of the U.S. Government Organization Manual. Dr. Travell, whose name appeared in the manual last year, is not listed this time, but still remains on the White House payroll as consultant...