Ladies' Day

Only seven days after he had held his first full-dress news conference live on television, President Johnson summoned reporters on short notice for another. As it turned out, it was more a campaign conference. Reading at an uncharacteristic rapid-fire pace, the President spent fully one-third of the meeting announcing appointments and extolling U.S. accomplishments under his Administration. He talked about the continuing growth of the national economy, which he said was already showing the beneficial effects of the tax cut, and even read a fan letter from the White House mailbag to show that the folks around the country are with him all the way. He spoke firmly of new plans to cut federal spending and payroll, and he added up how many women this Administration had appointed.

The women's vote was clearly on the President's mind. Earlier in the week, he had declared: "I am unabashedly in favor of women." To prove it, he announced the names of a bevy of feminine appointees--one being Jacqueline Kennedy as a member of a new committee for the preservation of the White House. Among others: -- Mrs. Norman Chandler, 62, wife of Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co. President Norman Chandler. Job: member, Advisory Committee to the U.S. Information Agency.

-- Mrs. India Edwards, nearing 70, longtime Johnson supporter, former vice chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee. Job: special consultant on youth employment to the Secretary of Labor.

-- Mrs. Mary Keyserling, 53, economist, wife of Harry Truman's economic adviser Leon Keyserling. Job: director, Women's Bureau, Labor Department.

-- Mrs. Herbert Stats, 53, freelance writer, public relations consultant to the Washington Heart Association. Job: consultant, Office of Aging, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and coordinator of Senior Citizens Month (May).

-- Mrs. Virginia Mae Brown, 40, member of the West Virginia public service commission, onetime assistant state attorney general. Job: member, Interstate Commerce Commission.

-- Mrs. Katharine E. White, 57, onetime mayor of Red Bank, N.J., chairman of the New Jersey Highway Authority, daughter of the late Abram I. Elkus, Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to Turkey. Job: ambassador. In his rush to get all the appointments sorted out in time for the announcement, Johnson did not get around to selecting a country to which Ambassador-Designate White will go. But he plans to notify her the minute one turns up.

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