servicemen, well, about two or three of them, got into the hearse and drove off and mr. o'kneel and -- o'neill and the rest of us just left standing there. >> vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nation's capital. >> not everyone realized johnson was the president because he in fact had taken the oath in january '61, the same oath the president takes. >> johnson wanted to show the american people that the government was functioning without interruption. also, perhaps, he wanted to show that his predecessor's family bore him no ill will for the assassination. >> lyndon baynes johnson is flying back to washington to take the reins of government at which time president johnson will have to take into his hands the reins of the most powerful nation in the world.