The Walkers

While Estes and Adlai were running hard, two Democrats who are still walking coughed audibly for attention.

P: In Texas Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson summoned reporters to his splendid LBJ Ranch near Johnson City (named for his grandpa) to pass the word that he was throwing his pearl grey Stetson into the presidential ring as a favorite son candidate. Johnson, recovered from a sharp coronary attack, made it clear that his objective was not so much to win the presidential nomination as to take control of Texas' 56-man delegation away from Governor Allan Shivers, who distressed Johnson (and outraged House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn) by leading Texas into the Eisenhower camp in 1952.

P: In Ohio Governor Frank Lausche, currently an unopposed candidate for the Democratic-nomination for U.S. Senator, was asked again whether he considered himself a potential presidential nominee. Said Lausche: "I have not arrogated to myself the ability and the courage that it requires to fill the post ... I know my limitations and, sincerely, I do not intend to be looking at the stars situated in the remote, limitless space, while at the same time stumbling and fumbling over the pitfalls that lie in the pathway of the work which I now have to do. I am not seeking that post. I want to repeat what I have said in the past: that if by some miraculous chance the assignment should come to me, I will not flee the responsibility." In other words: yes, indeed.

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