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DIED. Walter Wilson Jenkins, 67, hard-working, self-effacing special assistant and close friend to Lyndon Johnson until his resignation three weeks before the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, following his arrest on a morals charge; of complications from a stroke; in Austin. Jenkins was accused of homosexual behavior in a Washington YMCA. Forfeiting bond, he did not appear in court to face the charge against him, and left politics, later becoming a management consultant and operator of an Austin cable construction company...
...Scouten moved from the Secret Service to the White House staff as deputy to the chief usher, who is in charge of running the physical White House. Scouten was on duty when Ike had his slight stroke that year and aides gently persuaded him not to go to the state dinner that night. Scouten helped execute Jackie Kennedy's dinner on Mount Vernon's lawn for Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, a logistics marvel that involved preparing the food in field kitchens and transporting guests down the Potomac. "Thank goodness the weather was good," he recalled, an all-time understatement...
This year alone, more than 100,000 Americans will undergo carotid endarterectomy, a Roto-Rooter-like procedure designed to scoop fatty blockages from the carotid artery in the neck. The operation is intended to reduce the chance of stroke by allowing blood to flow more freely through the carotid to the brain. There is just one problem, bluntly stated last week at an American Heart Association meeting by Dr. Mark Dyken, chief of neurology at Indiana University: "No careful study has ever shown any conclusive benefit." Of more concern, according to a survey conducted by Dyken and Statistician Robert Pokras...
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With a broad brush-stroke, Joubert paints politicians from the local to the federal level as “crocks of shit...