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PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, February 1, 1973
Mr. Johnson shakes hands with the then Republican
Presidential candidate, Richard Nixon (right), as
former Vice President Hubert Humphrey (left), the
Democratic candidate, chats with Cardinal Terence
Cooke, Archbishop of New York, at the Alfred E.
Smith Memorial Dinner in New York in 1968.
Evangelist Billy Graham (left) and Mr. Johnson bow
their heads during a Presidential prayer breakfast in
Washington in 1964. In his memoirs, the former
President revealed that Mr. Graham acted as an
emissary to Richard Nixon during the 1968 campaign.
LBJ’s ‘Heart Was with Poor’ Says Archbishop
“His heart was with the
poor.”
impossible,”
Lucey recalled.
Archbishop
This comment on the late
President Lyndon B. Johnson
came from Archbishop
Robert E. Lucey, former
head of the San Antonio
archdiocese, who had known
the late President for more
than 30 years.
Archbishop Lucey told NC
News of his first contact with
Johnson, then a member of
the House of Representatives,
in 1941. “I asked him if
anything could be done to
improve the condition of the
pecan shellers in San Antonio
who were said to be receiving
15 cents an hour as a salary,”
the archbishop said.
Later Johnson, then
President presided over the
enactment of a series of laws
aiding the poor and
oppressed: Medicare, the Civil
Rights Acts of 1964 and
1967, the Voting Rights Act.
But at that time, Johnson,
whose Presidency was to be
marked by advances in
legislation for social benefits,
“replied that only a minimum
wage law could solve that
problem and at that time
such legislation in Texas was
In April 1966, Johnson,
recalling in San Antonio that
first contact with Archbishop
Lucey, said: “He wasn’t really
as respectable then as he is
now -- he was kind of a
Bolshevik in the minds of a
lot of people when he came
down here.
“I remember his writing
me and quarreling and fussing
and just doing everything that
he could do to try to help do
something for people who
were picking pecans in San
Antonio.”
Referring to the Vietnam
War, Archbishop Lucey said
that the late President shared
his conviction “that if unjust
agression became popular and
profitable, it would be the
end of freedom in our
country and of peace in the
world.”
In a tetter in 1971 to
Archbishop Lucey on the
prelate’s 80th birthday, the
former President praised the
archbishop, long a staunch
supporter of his Vietnam
policy, as “a steady friend
and a tower of strength and
comfort.”
Other tributes to Johnson
referred to his achievements
in the area of social welfare
and civil rights.
Cardinal John Krol of
Philadelphia, president of the
National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, called him
“a dedicated American whose
leadership of our country, in
years of conflict and
controversy, manifested his
deeply held personal
commitment to the well
being of our nation and to
the achievement of human
rights.”
Father Theodore M.
Hesburgh, president of Notre
Dame University, former
chairman of the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights,
said in a press conference that
“there was no question that
Lyndon Johnson was the best
of the four Presidents under
whom (I) served in the area of
civil rights.” Father Hesburgh
first became a member of the
commission in 1957.
Recalling that Johnson had
once said that the test for a
good presidency was enabling
millions to escape from
poverty and injustice, Father
Hesburgh said, “If that is the
test, then LBJ passed it with
flying colors.”
The late president, Father
Hesburgh said, “was touched
by the war which in the
public eye corroded his vision
of America, but he did more
for practical emancipation
through civil rights legislation
than any other President.”
In April, 1964, Johnson
told 150 Catholic, Protestant
and Jewish religious leaders
he received at the White
House, that “justice and
morality demand passage” of
the Civil Rights Act then
before Congress.
“It is your job, as men of
God,” he told them, “to
reawaken the conscience of
our beloved land, the United
States of America.”
The war in Vietnam,
regarded by many observers
as the cause of the decline in
the late President’s popularity
between his reelection in
1964 and his decision not to
run again in 1968, was the
subject of many exchanges of
messages between Johnson
and Pope Paul VI and of their
conversation during a visit the
President made to the
Vatican in December 1967.
During that visit, the Pope
expressed his concern over
Vietnam and offered
suggestions regarding the
resolution of the conflict.
Johnson expressed his
intention to seek peace
through negotiations and
asked the Pope to help obtain
more humane living
conditions for U.S. prisoners
of war in North Vietnam.
In March 1968 before he
announced his intention not
to seek reelection, Johnson
told his vice-president,
Hubert H. Humphrey, “I’ve
done everything I could to
try and end the war. I’ve tried
the Pope, I’ve tried the
Russians, I’ve tried the Poles,
the French . . .I’m going to
make another supreme effort.
Hubert, I want peace in
Vietnam more than
anything.”
In November 1968, at the
60th annual Pan-American
Mass, Cardinal Patrick
O’Boyle of Washington
described Johnson as “the
chief ecumenist in this
ecumenical age.”
A short time later, the
President celebrated
Thanksgiving by attending
services at three Texan
churches, including the
Catholic St. Francis Xavier
Church near his home.
During his presidency, he
was noted for making
nocturnal visits to various
Washington churches,
including St. Dominic’s
Catholic Church, where he
also attended Mass from time
to time.
One of the social highlights
of his presidency was the
wedding of his daughter Luci
Baines Johnson, a convert to
Catholicism, to Patrick
Nugent in August 1966 at the
National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception. It
was the first time a
president’s daughter married
in a Catholic church and the
first time a President had
visited the national shrine.
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