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...senior White House staffer, Jenkins was the one to whom such other aides as Reedy and Jack Valenti went when L.B.J. was busy. During the Democratic Convention in August, he was Lyndon's chief of staff in Atlantic City; when the summons finally came for Hubert Humphrey to be anointed the vice-presidential candidate, it was Jenkins who did the summoning...
Early Wednesday, the Washington Star got the tip, called the White House to check it. With Lyndon and several top aides on the road, Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird's press secretary, was the only White House press staffer on hand. She took the call. Unbelieving and upset, she phoned Jenkins in his office. Within minutes, a distraught Jenkins got in touch with Lawyer Abe Fortas,* an old Lyndon crony, and told him almost hysterically that he was in "real trouble." Fortas called Fellow Lawyer Clark Clifford, a top trouble-shooter in the Truman, Kennedy and Johnson Administrations...
With the departure of Walter Jenkins, the White House staffer who emerges as most important is Billy Don Moyers, 30, who, in addition to his own duties, now takes over those of Jenkins...
Sacramento's shrieking, surging mob of some 100,000 sent Lyndon Johnson into transports of delight. After reluctantly escaping from his admirers, Johnson winked at aides, chortled and asked: "Now how was that for a crowd?" "Oh," replied a staffer, "pretty good." For a moment, Lyndon looked as though he had been smacked in the face with a wet mop. Then he realized that he was being joshed, and grinned more broadly than ever...
...Capital Cities Broadcasting recently paid $5,000,000 for New Jersey's WPAT, which had changed hands for $300,000 in 1954, and Westinghouse Broadcasting put up $10 million for New York City's WINS, which had brought only $425,000 in 1952. Says a top staffer: "Radio stations are the ideal small business. They can be picked up for very little cash-down. They cost little to stay on the air, have few failures and are easy to unload...