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...eventful presidency, the gravest crisis of all was the first. No Vice President be fore him ever witnessed the assassination of a President; none ever had the presidency thrust upon him in such brutal circumstances. Johnson was shocked and staggered. But even as he sat in an anteroom of Parkland Memorial Hos pital in Texas, he took full command of himself and of the office for which he had been honing his talents all his life...
...Condition Was Hopeless." Five minutes after the shooting, the presidential limousine screeched into the driveway of the Parkland Memorial Hospital. Vice President Johnson's car and two cars loaded with Secret Service men arrived almost simultaneously. Agent Clinton Hill removed his suit jacket and covered the President's head and chest to prevent photographs...
...knot on his necktie. That wound, says the Warren Commission, lethal." But the second bullet that hit bored into the right rear of his skull, "causing a massive and fatal wound" approximately five inches wide on the right side of his head. So extensive was the damage that the Parkland doctors were unsure whether the bullets had landed from back or front. They did not discover the wounds in the back of his neck
...presidents, vice presidents and general managers who have studied there since the program began eleven years ago, Arden House is the former barony of Railroad Tycoon E. H. Harriman. In 1950 Eldest Son W. Averell Harriman gave the $5.5 million neo-Norman castle and its 100 acres of parkland to Columbia. Alumnus Averell and his brother Roland picked up the tab for converting the old homestead into a conference center (item: a new roof at $165,000) for the university. For après la classe, it has a swimming pool, golf course and tennis courts-plus a lake...
...second course available to the Committee is legal action. When owners of property on the Drive deeded the land to Cambridge for the Drive, they inserted a covenant that the property was to be used in perpetuity as parkland...