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The Dallas office rang busy. He said, "But for God's sake, hurry. I tried calling Washington. Hughes, 67, a kindly faced woman stood with a small black Bible household appliances bearing in her hands, waiting to give the oath. Kilduff propelled us to the President's suite two-thirds of the way back in the plane. . Kilduff came out of the plane and motioned wildly toward my booth. District Judge Sarah T.

A detective stopped me and said, "You dropped your pocket comb. The Secret Service had requested that no sirens be used in the vicinity of the airport, but the Dallas officer did a masterful job of getting us through some of the worst traffic I'd ever seen. Whereupon I ran back through the hospital to the conference room.S. I saw a bank of telephone booths beside the runway and asked if I had time to advise my news service. There Jiggs Fauver of the White House transportation staff grabbed me and said Kilduff wanted a pool of three men immediately to fly back to Washington on Air Force One, the Presidential aircraft. Down the stairs I ran and into the driveway, only to discover Kilduff had just pulled out in our telephone car. I wedged inside the door and began counting. As we piled out of the car on the edge of the runway about 200 yards from the Presidential aircraft, Kilduff spotted us and motioned for us to hurry. Johnson stood in the center with his wife, Lady Bird. There were 27 people in this compartment. Charles Roberts of Newsweek magazine, Sid Davis of Westinghouse Broadcasting and I implored a police officer to take us to the airport in his squad car. The room is used normally as a combination conference and sitting room and could accommodate eight to ten people seated. All circuits were busy. I got the Dallas office. U. I slammed down the phone and jogged across the runway.

Then I called the New York bureau of UPI and told them about the impending installation of a new President aboard the airplane." Aboard Air Force One on which I had made so many trips as a press association reporter covering President Kennedy, all of the shades of the larger main cabin were drawn and the interior was hot and dimly lighted." Then began another telephone nightmare. Virginia had gotten through before me. We trotted to him and he said the plane could take two pool men to Washington: that Johnson was about to take the oath of office aboard the plane and would take off immediately thereafter