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Show Johnson Ponders Trip To Churchill's Funeral WASHINGTON (AP) President Presi-dent Johnson has improved a great deal his doctors said Monday. But they want him to stay in the hospital awhile longer, and that might delay a decision on whether he will fly to London for the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. George E. Reedy, the Presi- dent's press secretary, relayed this word from Johnson's physicians phy-sicians and said a decision on whether to make the trip to London "doesn't have to be made today or tomorrow." Johnson's temperature wasr described as within the normal range Monday, after reaching a high of 99.2 Sunday night. The President had said Sunday that his departure from the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, - Md., might depend on when he got rid of his fever. Reedy said that, while Johnson John-son was much improved, his doctors would still like to keep him in the hospital for a further fur-ther period of convalescence. Reedy said Johnson doubtless had already been offered considerable con-siderable advice on whether it would be wise to fly to the ites for Sir Winston Saturday. But he emphasized that the President will make his own decision, and that presumably it will hinge in good measure on how he feels by Wednesday or Thursday. Johnson said earlier he wants very much to make the trip. Johnson was given an elec-trocardiagram elec-trocardiagram Monday morning his second since he entered the hospital at 2:50 a.m. Saturday Satur-day with a heavy cold and sore throat. As before, the results were described as normal. Reedy said the doctors also made routine hemoglobin and blood count tests. He reported all were normal. On Saturday morning, Johnson's infection had elevated the white-cell blood count above the normal range. Mrs. Johnson, a fellow cold suffered, remained a patient at the hospital, too, but was said to be much improved. Daughter Lynda Bird, 20, who also has the bug and spent the weekend in bed at the White House, was better, and returned to her classes at George Washington Wash-ington University. The other Johnson daughter, "Luci Baines, 17, did not contract the illness. Reedy said Johnson slept well, and ate a normal breakfast. break-fast. He said the President still was not doing too much official business, and that his visitors wt-e confined to staff aides. The President's fiscal 1966 budget n:ssage went to Congress Con-gress in routine fashion, being delivered to the clerks of both chambers. Presidents seldom deliver messages in person except ex-cept for the State of-the Union speech. |
