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Johnson is certainly paying enough attention. But he is also having trouble staying on top of problems in the way that John Kennedy did. The reason is that he carries his office around un der his Stetson, and he has not yet set up a White House staff adequate to the job. Lyndon brought no foreign policy advisers of his own to the White House, and the machinery that Kennedy set up has been allowed to rust. McGeorge Bundy, once Kennedy's closest adviser on national security, has become more of an organizer and message router than an idea...
...Texas' Democratic Governor John Connally wore Western boots, a big felt Stetson, checkered sports shirt, tan twill pants. His right arm, in a cast from the wrist to the elbow, was supported by a black-bandanna sling. "I'll ride with you," the Governor told his visitor. "Turn right and go on down that road. We've got some work to do on these roads, but they aren't as bad as they look...
Deep in thought, a former Kennedy aide strode through the White House to ward the President's office, then stopped short. On a rack just outside of the oval office hung a big Stetson hat. Sec retaries, pretty but unfamiliar, bustled around through the anterooms. The doors to the President's office, nearly always open when John F. Kennedy was there, were closed tight. Inside that office, as the aide well knew, was Lyndon Baines Johnson, probably at that very moment speaking softly into a green telephone...
While such schools as the University of Chicago and Stetson have large and apparently successful Early Admission programs, Harvard's experience is not unique. Many schools, including Yale, have similar programs, but actually admit very few students under them. Harvard is pessimistic "but," Wilcox added, "we are not opposed to acceleration although it hasn't worked here...
...husky, ruddy-faced man looked like a tough trail boss in a TV western as he mounted his palomino and set off across the rugged mountain country north of Los Angeles. He wore thread bare khaki trousers over his riding boots, a red Western shirt and a modified stetson, and packed an automatic pistol to deal with any rattlesnakes, bobcats or mountain lions he might encounter...