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Griffin Daily Newt
Dec. 31, 1966 — Sun., Jan. 1, 1967
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The WASHINGTON (NEA)
millions of Americans who very shortly will be .able to
read magazine excerpts of William Manchester’s “The Death
of a President” should understand that they will be looking
at a political document as well as one man’s record of John
F. Kennedy's assassination.
It is political because, by all accounts of those who have
seen the work in advance, it lays important stress upon the
painful estrangement between two great power centers in the
Johnson, ruling Democratic party—the one focused upon President
the other upon the Kennedys.
If we are to take at face value Mrs. John F. Kennedy’s state
ment issued after settlement of negotiations which led to the
excising changes of certain passages from the Manchester work, the
do not affect the political content.
sought Deliberately and consciously, that however, Mrs. Kennedy
to reflect adversely upon content, saying: “I have
been told there are historical inaccuracies and unfair refer
ences in this book ... In time, history will deal fairly and
justly The with this period.”
• fact is, that even before publication and solely on the
basis of leaked hints as to content, a corrective process has
to already the set in against Manchester’s judgments with respect
If the KennedyJohnson advance relationships.
word is accurate ana Lyndon Johnson suffers
acutely the in the author’s portrayal of the events surrounding
rians, assassination, political then a sense of fairness will impel histo
quickly the effort observers, balance book critics and others to join
to the record.
The leaked Manchester postassassination portrait of John
son is of a crude, insensitive man, seen by the Kennedys as
too eager to seize power, trying to “use” the Kennedys to
aggrandize Several himself in his new role, shoving them aside.
will find things need to be borne in mind by Americans who
some such picture laid before them in the weeks
ahead.
All the Kennedy Johnson principals in the postassassination
drama, particularly in the early stages aboard Air Force One
in Dallas and en route to Washington, were in varying de
grees of shock. Being human,' they made mistakes. Normally
controlled animosities flared openly under stress. People with
differing Mrs. but quite understandable purposes crossed wills.
nation locale. Kennedy The wanted to get quickly away from the assassi
new President wanted to wait to be sworn
in. The Kennedys thought it unseemly for Johnson to “take
over.” He thought it important to the nation and the world
that continuity of authority be swiftly established.
When John Kennedy’s death was a certified fact, then Lyn
don Johnson WAS President. He had a duty to “take over,”
to keep power flowing smoothly, to reassure the country it
was However being firmly governed at a grave turn in its history.
crude and self-serving it may have seemed to the
Kennedys, (false it even made sense for him to give the appearance
or not) of a tight alliance between himself and his slain
predecessor. Hence his insistence at having Mrs. Kennedy at
his side at the swearing-in. He was even the source of a later
report, ill-founded, that she would campaign for him in 1964.
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On the fable in my hotel room were two packages of Ja
panese tea—and a calling card. the difficult
The note written on the back of card was to
read after 20 years away from Japan.
What it said, roughly, was, “You gave my husband some
medicine 20 years ago when he was sick. Please accept this
small remem brance.
It was impossible not to cry.
The incident she mentioned was during the American occu
pation of Japan just after World War II. Some did. medicines
were difficult to get. It was a small thing that I
But she remembered for 20 years.
There’s a lesson here.
We are winning the cold war in one small place in Laos
where there’s a dirt farmer, Pop Buell, spending people. virtually all
his salary doing what he can personally for
We are winning the war in a town in South Vietnam where
a man named Ed Navarro loves and is loved by every man,
woman We and child he major bumps victories into. in rural in Japan
where are winning Paul Rusch is helping a people area do their
a man called
farming The free better. people winning, too, in farm in
India are farmers helping a poor the fanners area
where Japanese are grow
better the rice. They can’t talk the language. farmer. But they get out into
fields and plant with the poorest
Not much money is being spent in these projects. But indi
vidual human beings are building friendships and helping
people with their hearts and their hands.
Wherever this reporter went in Eastern and Southeast Asia
—in Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Ja
when pan—the United States and the Free Vietnamese, World were succeeding Thai, Fili
individual people—American,
pino Things or Japanese—were helping still—or people personally. losing—when all
were standing we were aid, administered in
that moved into an area was government
chunks through bureaucratic channels.
One thing was proven time and again: Men are heart more impor
tant than large amounts of goods. A man with a can do
far more than can impersonal government grants.
People remember these men and what they do—for more
than 20 years.
In a war like this, troops, guns, planes and bombs are
needed. They are needed badly. But these other men are
needed, too. will be
Without them the war not won.
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★ WASHINGTON COLUMN *
Be Fair to LBJ in Reading
'The Death of a President'
Washington By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Newspaper Correspondent
Enterprise Assn.
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