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...week and back into the heat of the campaign. His doctors pronounced him recovered from the staph infection that had bedded him down for eleven days, yielded to his argument that he deserved a full weekend with his family before this week's 9,000-mile, 14-state foray...
...Then someone realized that they had not alerted the pilot. That little matter attended to, Lyndon Johnson's wife Lady Bird, Jack Kennedy's sister Eunice, and Bobby Kennedy's wife Ethel left Washington last week and headed West on the first all-female foray of the presidential campaign. Disturbed by reports of Texas' growing unhappiness with Lyndon Johnson for supporting the liberal civil rights plank in the Democratic platform, the ladies were determined to corral the female vote and save the Lone Star State for their party...
...when Nixon made a quick foray into North Carolina, he was stirred by the enthusiastic reception he got (see Republicans). Kennedy's Roman Catholicism was obviously hurting him in Baptist country. And Johnson was not proving to be the Southern darling everyone was led to believe. Wrote Richmond News Leader Editor James Kilpatrick fortnight...
Johnson cherishes a hope that the summit blowup greatly added to the political appeal of the image he has tried to create: experienced, responsible, free of zealous partisanship, the candidate of national unity. On a foray into the Northwest last week, he refused to make a formal declaration of his candidacy. Duty forbade, he explained: as an avowed candidate he would have to neglect his Senate duties. But at a political session in an Idaho Falls hotel, he leveled with an anxious admirer. "We don't want to bet on a horse that's going to stay...
...Real Issue." Well aware that defeat in West Virginia's popularity poll (it has no binding effect on delegates) would be interpreted as a death notice, Kennedy switched from the white-glove tactics he had used in Wisconsin. In a three-day foray he struck at Humphrey as a "hatchet man" who could not win the nomination himself but was "being used" by Texas' Lyndon Johnson and Missouri's Stuart Symington in a "stop-Kennedy" gang-up. Retorted Humphrey: "He's acting like a spoiled juvenile...