


“If I’d known I had so many friends in Washington I might have run for office.” Looking around at the sizable crowd in the Cabinet Room of the White House, he said: Louis Cardinals, seemed to enjoy the attention.

Musial, who is retiring this season after a long career as outfielder and first baseman with the St. Musial, a smiling, affable man, professed to be “kind of nervous.” He said he would “really rather have a bat in my hand.” Johnson called the baseball player “a hero to the youth of this country” and a man who had proved that “being a champ means a good deal more than just winning.” 26 Stan Musial was sworn in today as director of President Johnson's physical ‐ fitness program.
