JOHNSON CITY, Texas, Nov. 17, 1960 (UPI) - President-elect John F. Kennedy and his running mate, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, went deer hunting today in the rugged hills around Johnson's ranch, leaving until later in the day a continuation of a session to map plans for their new administration.
Meeting for the first time since the election, the two Democratic leaders began their talks on the 300-acre "LBJ" ranch shortly after Kennedy arrived by chartered jet airliner from his vacation headquarters at Palm Beach, Fla.
Their foremost topic was formation and programs of the new administration which they will head next year.
During the afternoon they were to be joined by ranking Democrats in the area, including House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Texas Gov. Price Daniel.
Kennedy planned to fly back to Palm Beach tonight.
The tall majority leader of the Senate, in a broad-brimmed western hat and loose-fitting leather jacket, and his wife, Lady Bird, were waiting to greet the visitors last night.
"I'm glad to see you -- if you'll take that hat off," Kennedy said to his host with a broad smile.
Simon J. Burg, a leading citizen of Stonewall, 200 population, and the town nearest the ranch, came up to present Kennedy with a typical Texas gift, a snow-white hat which the president-elect, who has an aversion to hats of any kind, handled like a hot towel.
Photographers yelled at him to put it on, but the Massachusetts senator said determinedly that while it was a "beautiful hat" he preferred to "try it on at home."
Staying with Kennedy in the Johnson home were his special assistant, Kenneth C. O'Donnell, and Cong. Torbert Macdonald (D., Mass.), a Harvard classmate of the president-elect, and his recent house guest in Palm Beach.
Macdonald reportedly is frontrunner for Kennedy's Senate seat.
