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Monday, April 1, 1968 Griffin Daily News
Like Inviting Fish To Swim
LBJ’s 400 Yards
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Senior Editor
WASHINGTON (UPD—Pres
ident Johnson likes to tell about
an old Texas rancher who once
observed of him:
“Lyndon has moved far in 60
years—all of 400 yards.”
Four hundred yards is the
distance between the small
house in Johnson City, Tex.,
where he was bom Aug. 27,
1908, and the handsome ranch
on the Pedernales River to
which he says he’ll retire next
Jan. 20.
One reason tne journey took
so long is that he made a 37-
year detour into public life in
Washington.
His political career began in
1931 when he volunteered to
work in the congressional
campaign of Richard Kleberg,
owner of the mammoth King
ranch. Johnson then was two
years out of college and
teaching in a Houston high
school. Kleberg was elected and
invited Johnson to accompany
him to Washington as a staff
assistant.
Fits Right In
It was like inviting a fish to
have a try at swimming.
“He came here green as
grass, but within a few months
he knew how to operate in
Washington better than some
who’d been here 20 years,”
recalls an old-timer on Capitol
Hill.
Six years later, Johnson
sought a congressional seat of
his own. He ran for a vacancy
in the 10th Texas District—the
youngest and least-known candi
date in a field of ten. He
attracted voter attention by
running as an all-out New
Dealer—a novelty in a cam
paign in ■which all nine of his
rivals were loudly denouncing
the policies of Presidet Fran
klin D. Roosevelt. Johnson won
the election. He also won the
admiration of FDR.
After two terms in the House,
Johnson ran for the Senate—and
lost by 1,311 votes. It was the
only election defeat of his
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Lyndon B. Johnson
career.
He made a second try for the
Senate in 1948, and this time
squeaked through to victory by
the hairbreadth margin of 87
votes out of nearly a million
cast. Wags called him “land
slide Lyndon.”
Shines In Senate
The “gentlemen’s club” of the
Senate, with its vast array of
unwritten rules and its prefer
ence for quietly arranged deals,
proved to be the perfect arena
for Johnson to display Ms
particular skills. In a short
time, he became known as a
virtuoso at the art of working
out the mutual accommodations
and reasonable compromises on
which legislative consensus is
based. Only two years after
entering the Senate, he was
chosen Democratic whip. Two
years later, he was elected
Senate Democratic leader and
held that post for eight years—
from 1952 to 1960.
In 1960, he sought the
Democratic presidential nomin
ation, but lost out to a young
Massachusetts senator named
John F. Kennedy. Johnson
swallowed his chagrin and
accepted second place on the
Kennedy ticket. On Jan. 20,
1961, Kennedy entered the White
House and Johnson embarked
on a period of massive
frustration in the relatively
impotent role of vice president.
But on Nov. 22, 1963, Lee
Harvey Oswald fired three rifle
shots at an open limousine
moving slowly along a sunlit
street in Dallas. John F.
Kennedy slumped forward in his
wife's arms. And Lyndon B.
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Johnson was President of the
United States.
His first year in the White
House was marked by one
dazzling success after another.
He pledged himself to carry on
the Kennedy program, and
during that session of Congress
he obtained passage of 47 of the
51 major legislative proposals
he had inherited from Kennedy.
Landslide Victory
In November, of 1964 he
defeated Sen. Barry M. Goldwa
ter, the Republican nominee, to
win the presidency in his own
right and this time his landslide
victory was a real one.
He began his first full term in
1965 with a pledge to wage "all
out war on poverty” and
achieve a “Great Society” for
all Americans. But as the year
progressed, he found himself
more and more engrossed in
foreign affairs rather than
domestic problems.
At the start of 1965, the
United States had about 20,000
men serving as “military advi
sers” to units ot the South
Vietnamese army. By the end
.of 1965, more than 100.000 U.S.
troops were fighting in South
Vietnam.
And that was just the
beginning. The word "escalate”
entered the American vocabula
ry as the conflict with the
Communist - governed North
Vietnam continued to widen
throughout 1966 and 1967, and
the U.S. commitment of man
power climed to 200,000, then
300,000, then 400,000 then 500,000
and beyond.
As the war costs soared
Johnson found it necessary to
hold the line or cut back on
domestic programs. And even
with these economies, the
federal budget plunged deep
into the red, and inflationary
pressures mounted steadily in
the U.S. economy.
Primary Upset
When the citizens of New
Hampshire went to the polls
last month, to cast ballots in
the first presidential primary of
1968, Johnson received less than
a majority of the Democratic
Communists
Release Two
U. S. Women
SAIGON (UPl)—The Commu
nists released two American
women today 52 days after their
capture during the battle for
Hue.
A U.S. mission spokesman
said Dr. Marjorie Nelson, 29, of
Kokomo, Ind., and Sandra
Johnson, 25, of Clio, Mich., had
been freed near Hue and “are
now in American hands.”
The spokesman would not
disclose where the two women
were, but said they were
undergoing physical examina
tions and appeared to be in
good health.
Hanoi’s Vietnam news agency
said Sunday that the two
women would be released but
did not say how or where.
Their release follows by three
days the repatriation of three
North Vietnamese seamen cap
tured by the U.S. Navy off
North Vietnam in July 1966, a
move the United States hoped
would prompt further releases
of American pilots by the Hanoi
government.
POLITICAL BATTLE
BEIRUT (UPD—Clashes be
tween supporters of rival
candidates in Lebanon’s parli
amentary elections Sunday left
three dead and 13 Injured,
officials said today.
The worst of the fighting was
reported in Sidon, about 50
miles south of Beirut. At Zahle,
about 45 miles From Beirut, a
security officer was reported in
serious condition after he was
stoned by women voters.
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votes, while a relatively little
known Democratic senator,
Eugene J. McCarthy of Minne
sota, running as a peace
candidate, rolled up a startling
42 per cent.
It was a rare humiliation for
an incumbent president. Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy of New
York, who had hitherto accept
ed the opinion of most
professional politicians that it
would be impossible to prevent
Johnson's renomination, did a
quick reappraisal of the situa
tion and declared himself a
candidate.
As late as 9 p.m. Sdunday,
when Johnson began a televised
address to the nation, Washing
ton political pundits were
virtually unanimous in the
belief that he would seek
another term.
If there’s anything Lyndon B.
Johnson likes better than
winning elections, it’s confound
ing the press. Sunday night he
did just that by adding to his
prepared speech, at the last
minute, the announcement that
“I shall not seek, and I will not
accept, tlie nomination of my
party for another term.”
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A NON-PROFIT HOSPITAL SERVICE CORPORATION
DIRECTORS 107 NORTH HILL STREET Secretary
George L. Walker., M.D., President mirriki rrAnAii Frank L. Bartholomew, Jr.
J. T. Doughtie, Vice-President GRIFFIN, GEORGIA
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OFFERS
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(For those not covered by Medicare, and For Residents of:
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This Plan was Incorporated to write in the above Counties only.
These Plans have no NON-Co-ordination clause. They pay regardless of any group or Individual Plan you
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When a subscriber is admitted as a bed patient to any General Hospital in the
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30 days for each hospital confinement. Readmission within 90 days (180
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Bed and Board allowance up to $20.00 per day
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Operating Room PAID IN FULL
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