The Passage of Power (169 page)

The new President and Vice President review the inaugural parade. (
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A Texas Society reception for Johnson: Lynda, Lady Bird, LBJ and Lucy, who is kissing Sam Rayburn. (
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The Vice President overshadowed. The President pledging support for Equal Employment Opportunity as LBJ looks on. (
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The Vice President overshadowed. The President signing a bill at his desk in the Oval Office as LBJ looks on. (
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The Vice President overshadowed. The President confers with a congressional delegation. (
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The Cuban Missile Crisis. October 29, 1962: ExComm meets in the cabinet room. Around the table, clockwise, from Attorney General Robert Kennedy (standing at left): Deputy USIA Director Donald Wilson; Special Counsel Ted Sorensen (behind him Executive Secretary NSC Bromley Smith); Special Assistant McGeorge Bundy; Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon, Vice President LBJ; former Ambassador to Russia Llewellyn Thompson; William C. Forster; JFK; Secretary of State Dean
Rusk; CIA Director John McCone (partially obscured); Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Maxwell Taylor; Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze (
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Arriving in Texas, November 21, 1963: (from the top) Representative Jack Brooks, unidentifi ed, Senator Ralph Yarborough, Representative Albert Thomas, Governor John Connally, Nellie Connally, President and Mrs. Kennedy greeted by Vice President and Mrs. Johnson. (
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November 22: President Kennedy speaking in Fort Worth. Behind him, from the foreground, LBJ, Governor John Connally and Senator Ralph Yarborough (
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The Bobby Baker scandal had already erupted and on November 22 was heating up in Washington and New York.

The Bobby Baker scandal had already erupted and on November 22 was heating up in Washington and New York. (
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Dallas: the motorcade (
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Dallas: the motorcade (
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