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Johnson himself seems impatient to head north. But, as his physicians have pointed out, it takes the average patient up to three months to recover fully from a gall-bladder operation-and the President is a normal patient. Moreover, he has maintained a taxing schedule of appointments with Administration officials, whom he has summoned to Texas to discuss topics ranging from aluminum prices to last month's blackout in the Northeast. Nonetheless, Johnson's absence from the capital has unquestionably occasioned an atmosphere of drift and disarray within his Administration. Indeed, he is about to enter the most...
...That scar, his doctor reported last week, is in "excellent condition." Vice Admiral George Burkley, the White House physician, added that in every other respect as well, Lyndon Johnson's recovery is in the "normal range." Last week was the sixth since Johnson left the hospital after his gall-bladder operation. It marked the end of the period mentioned by his doctors as the time it would take the President to resume full "physical activity...
Actually, doctors explained by way of quashing the rumors, the President was undergoing a normal convalescence. Many Americans-including Johnson-expected that he would return sooner to his hyperactive ways. Yet most gall-bladder patients take about three months to regain their strength completely, as distinct from the ability to walk normally, climb stairs, and take routine exercise-all of which Johnson has been doing...
...ever more demanding responsibilities. Most of Moyers' work was done behind the scenes until, in another crisis last July, he stepped in to fill the vacant office of White House press secretary. Thus, it was not until the most recent emergency, the President's gall-bladder operation, that Moyers' smooth, owlish, utterly earnest face finally became familiar on the nation's TV screens. Day after day, Americans watched in fascination as Moyers read the complex, meticulously detailed summaries of President Johnson's operation and convalescence...
...test, the President's gall-bladder operation, Moyers' performance consolidated that estimate. Since the President's Oct. 8 operation, he has been like a latter-day Boswell, always keeping a spiral-bound notebook at hand to record everything that Lyndon said and did. And about the only time that Moyers was not with the President was when he was briefing the press on his progress. Though some newsmen blamed him for concealing the existence of one kidney stone until after it was removed by surgery and of another that is still embedded in the kidney...