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Humphrey Free To
Seek Nomination
By GEORGE J. MARDER
WASHINGTON (UPD—Pres
ident Johnson’s “irrevocable”
withdrawal from the presiden
tial race has freed Vice
President Hubert Humphrey to
seek the nomination himself.
Chances are it advanced by
four years the contest which
Democratic politicians had ex
pected for 1972, pitting the vice
president against Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy, brother of the man
who beat Humphrey for the
nomination eight years ago.
The Jonhson announcement
also had an impact in Republi
can ranks, putting new pres
sures on New York Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller to get into the
GOP race actively and openly.
Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa., urged
Rockefeller to reconsider and
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Monday, April 1, 1968
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Hubert Humphrey
become a candidate “in this
time of great crisis and great
challenge far America."
Primary Route Restricted
Humphrey’s strategy for get
ting into the presidential race
remains to be seen. He could
remain aloof from the battle
while Kennedy and Sen. Eugene
J. McCarthy of Minnesota fight
it out in the primaries. The
deadlines have passed in most
Humphrey’s opportunity to build
himself up that way.
On the other hand, Johnson’s
withdrawal has robbed the
remaining presidential prima
ries of any glamor Kennedy and
McCarthy hoped to gain from
them. In Wisconsin Tuesday,
McCarthy will be facing an
opponent who has said he will
not accept nomination, even if it
is offered.
In 1952, Sen. Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee had pretty much
the same experience. He
defeated President Truman in
New Hampshire and went on to
win every primary he entered.
They were empty victories.
Adlai E. Stevenson, whose name
was not entered in any primary,
won the nomination.
In bowing out, Johnson did
not express his preference for a
successor. But many Democra
tic leaders will be surprised if
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his choice is not Humphrey,
whom he has described as fit to
be president of the United
States.
Predicts Presidential Backing
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-
Wash., a former Democratic
national chairman, said he
assumed Johnson would now
back Humpnrey.
No one would expect Johnson
to campaign actively far
Humphrey. In withdrawing
from the race, he said he would
devote all his attention to being
President. Tne most effective
help for Humphrey would be
through the President’s political
contacts, which are numerous.
The vice president’s first task
will be to repair his lines of
communications to liberals, who
once were his major supporters
but who became disenchanted
over Humphrey’s strong support
of Johnson’s Vietnam policy.
The President made that task
easier for Humphrey with his
“new step” for peace.
Humphrey also Is now free to
start pushing ideas of his own.
rather than merely echoing
Johnson. For example, he is
known to have strong views on
what must ne done to eliminate
Negro ghettos.
Highlights Os
President’s Talk
WASHINGTON (UPD—High
lights from the President’s
speech to the nation.
—ln his own words, this is
how President Johnson told the
nation and the world he would
not run again for the presiden
cy:
“...Fifty-two months and 10
days ago, in a moment of
tragedy and trauma, the duties
of this office fell upon me. I
asked then for ‘your help and
God’s’ that we might continue
America on its course, binding
up our wounds, healing our
history, moving forward in new
unity to clear the American
agenda and to keep the
American commitment for all
our people.
“United, we have kept that
commitment, and united, we
have enlarged that commit
ment.
“Through all time to come,
America will be a stronger
nation, a more just society, a
land of greater opportunity and
fulfillment because of what we
have done together in these
years of unparalleled achieve
ment.
“Our reward will come in the
life of freedom and peace and
hope that our children will
enjoy through ages ahead.
“What we won when all our
people united must not now be
lost in suspicion, distrust and
selfishness or politics among
any of our people.
“Believing this as I do, I have
concluded that I should not
permit the presidency to ,
become Involved In the partisan '
divisions that are developing in '
this political year. With Ameri- (
ca’s sons In the field far away, '
with America’s future under
challenge here at home, with
our hopes and the world’s hopes
for peace in the balance every '
day, I do not believe that I
should devote an hour or a day
of my time to any personal
Bomb Pause May
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partisan causes or to any duties
other than the awesome duties
of this office, the presidency of
your country.
“Accordingly, I shall not seek
and I will not accept the
nomination of my party for
another term as your President.
But, let men everywhere know,
however, that a strong and a
confident, a vigilant America
stands ready to seek an
honorable peace and stands
ready tonight to defend an
honored cause, whatever the
price, whatever the burden,
whatever the sacrifice that duty
may require.”
—Remarks on de-escalation of
American action in the Vietnam
War:
“...Tonight, in the hope that
this action will lead to early
talks, I am taking the first step
to de-escalate the conflict. We
are reducing—substantially re
ducing—the present level of
hostilities.
“And we are doing so
unilaterally, and at once.
“Tonight, I have ordered our
aircraft and our naval vessels
to make no attacks on North
Vietnam, except in the area
north of the Demilitarized Zone
where the continuing enemy
build-up directly threatens allied
forward positions and where the
movements of their troops and
supplies are clearly related to
that threat.
“The area in which we are
stopping our attacks includes
almost 90 percent of North
Vietnam’s population, ad most
of its territory.
“Our purpose in this action is
to bring about a reduction in
the level of violence that now
exists.
“It is to save the lives of brave
men—and to save the lives of
innocent women and children. It
is to permit the contending
forces to move closer to a
political settlement.
“And tonight, I call upon the
United Kingdom and I call upon
the Soviet Union—as co-chair
men of the Geneva Conferences,
and as permanent members of
the United Nations Security
Council—to do all they can to
move from the unilaterial act of
de-escalation that I have just
announced toward genuine
peace in Southeast Asia.
“I call upon President Ho Chi
Minh to respond positively, and
favorably to this new step
toward peace.
“But if peace does not come
now through negotiations, it will
come when Hanoi understands
that our common resovle is
unshakable, and our common
strength is invincible.
“The United States will never
accept a fake solution to this
long and arduous struggle and
call it peace.”
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the new U.S. bombing pause
over North Vietnam to end in
three or four weeks unless
Hanoi agrees to work toward
peace talks.
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Allied cause.
Their time estimate of the
pause ordered by President
Johnson was partly based on
how long Allied forces could pay
the consequences. This price of
the pause is, they said:
—There will be no major
Allied offensives started during
the pause. The unhindered
Communist supplies lines from
the North will be too full,
—The pause in hitting the
north could weaken the combat
aggressiveness of individual
Allied soldiers in South Viet
nam. “When it looks like the
end of the war may be just
around the corner, a soldier is
less likely to take chances of
getting himself killed,” a
military source said.
—South Vietnam’s military
and political leaders were
known to be even more upset by
President Johnson’s announce
ments than American generals
who had asked far at least
50,000 more U.S. troops and no
bombing pause. President Nguy
en Van Thieu, apparently aware
that the pause was coming, was
almost bitter in a speech to
students Sunday. He said South
Vietnam would fight on alone
“even If our allies should no
longer be willing to assist us.
Foreign aid cannot be used to
force us Into Communist
slavery.”
—North Vietnam will use the
lull, as she has used past
pauses, to build new supply
lines to her farces on the North-
South Vietnam border. She will
stockpile military supplies in
greater quantity.
When and If the pause is
ended, the military sources said
they expected the air strikes
against North Vietnam to be
heavier than ever. The cloudy
monsoon weather would be
over. The sources said they
expected that any renewed
strikes might include such until
now excluded targets as the
port of Haiphong.