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Texas: Republican George Bush, 40, has Democratic Incumbent Ralph Yarborough, 61, running scared. But Yarborough leads...
...liberal Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, a native of East Texas cotton country, and conservative Republican George Bush, a New England-bred Ivy Leaguer (Yale '48), son of Connecticut's moderate former G.O.P. Senator Prescott Bush...
Houston's Bush, who has made a modest fortune as a Texas oilman since 1948, insists that Yarborough's "leftwing radicalism" is the basic campaign issue. In Bush's entourage is a country music group called the Black Mountain Boys, and the lyrics to one of their favorite campaign songs are: "Sun is gonna shine in the Senate some day/George Bush gonna run them liberals away...
...Down!" Two cars to the rear, in the Lincoln carrying the Lyndon Johnsons and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough, Secret Service Man Rufus W. Youngblood heard "an explosive noise." He wheeled around from the front seat, hit Johnson on the shoulder and yelled, "Get down!" Reported Johnson: "Almost in the same moment in which Youngblood hit or pushed me, he vaulted over the back seat and sat on me. I was bent over under the weight of Agent Youngblood's body, toward Mrs. Johnson and Senator Yarborough...
...conflicts in Texas. He did choose Governor Connally to place his name in nomination at the Atlantic City convention but that was natural enough since Connally was chairman of the delegation from Johnson's home state. He has also gone to great lengths to cement his relations with Ralph Yarborough and there is no doubt that the Senator wholeheartedly supports...