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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Pays the Price
The assassination of President Kennedy on the streets
of Dallas, Texas on Friday afternoon, when he was riding
in a motorcade with his wife, Governor and Mrs. Connally
of the State of Texas, who was also shot by the assassin, is
one of the darkest blots in the American history, and espe
cially bad for the great state of Texas. The President of
the United States died within an hour after being shot, and
the Governor of Texas is in a serious condition in a Dallas
hospital.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a young President, who be
lieved in what he belived and was willing to fight for it,
and of course some of the things he fought for was not pop
ular the world over, and there were many in the South that
would not have voted for him again, still they respected the
man, and condemn the man, or men back of his assassination.
President Kennedy was important to the entire free
world, and he meant a great deal more to all of us, than
many of us knew, or would admit. His death i» a loss to
many countries, and when the news flashed around the
world of his assassination, although it was midnight in
France and many other countries, the rulers and leaders of
these countries sent wires of their sorrow and grief, which
proved the respect that the entire free world had for this
great leader.
His passing places our country in a precarious position,
we have many things facing us in the immediate future, that
it is going to take an iron hand, and a dedicated man to the
principles he believed in.
The Journal joins all the other newspapers of America
in paying tribute to this great leader, who was cut down by
an assassins bullet, in the prime of life, and at a time when
he was so badly needed by all the free world.
Our New President, Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy died at two o’clock and 39 minutes
later, Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in as chief executive
of the United States.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
If you ask the average American citizen this question,
you would probably get two answers, one that he was the
vice-president and the other would be tWt he was from
Texas.
Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Texas in 1908. He grad
uated from high school at 15 and went to California where
he worked at odd jobs for about a year and a half. He re
turned home and his parents persuaded him to enter college.
He did and graduated from Southwest State Teachers
College.
He ran an elevator, and also was a printers devil in a
country weekly newspaper office, having experience with
the old George Washington printing press.
He taught school for one term and was offered a job
by one of the Texas congressmen as secretary. He took the
job and traveled to Washington.
Later he returned to Texas and campaigned for the
House of Representatives and was elected in 1937. Later in
the early '4o’s he ran for the senate and was barely defeated
by the popular “Pappy” O’Daniels.
Tn 1947 he ran for the United States Senate and was
barely elected, and later he often referred to himself as
“Landslide” Johnson.
At the Democratic Convention in 1960, Johnson was one
of "the main contenders for the top post, but he was defeated
on the first ballot by John F. Kennedy. Kennedy personally
asked that Johnson run for vice-president and Johnson ac
cepted.
Johnson was senate majority leader at the time and
many of his dose friends thought that he would be “put on
the shelf” if he were elected vice-president.
Lyndon Johnson, most political observers claim was the
man who put John F. Kennedy into the White House. He
campaigned in 43 of the states and was the main factor that
hdlped carry some of the states for Kennedy. As an example,
Texas had gone for the Republicans in the two previous
elections, and Johnson was the man that carried the 25 elec
torial votes into the Kennedy Column.
As vice-president. Johnson was probably the most active
person in that capacity. He served as a troubleshooter, am
bassador of good-will and peacemaker in almost all parts of
the world.
With all of his activity, he was somewhat regulated to a
backseat with the ever popular Kennedy Clan receiving
most of the headlines.
President Johnson comes to the presidency well informed
about the internal affairs of the nation. The late President
Kennedy insisted that the vice-president be kept informed
about the various matters of state. He sat in on most of the
high level talks and briefings of the cabinet and intelligence
services.
Lyndon B. Johnson is the first southerner to become
chief executive since another Johnson. Andrew, replaced
Ijncoln in 1865. It is ironic that both Johnsons became
president after the chief executive was shot in the had by
an assassin.
Many people want to know who would become president
if something were to happen to Lyndon Johnson between
now and the next election? 'Die next in line for the presi
dency would be from the United States Cabinet. The man
that would succeed President Johnson in case of need would
be House Speaker John McCormac. Then certain members
of the Cabinet would be in line.
Johnson is a mastr politician and he has many friends
that are in the house and senate. It is surmised that he will
proceed along the same line as the late president with his
“New Frontier."
It is time that we Americans show our true mettle and
rally behind President Johnson and make certain that our
country continues upon the road to “greatness." which she
so richly deeerves.
The candidates have all qualified, two of them for Mayor,
Hon. C. C. Spinks, to succeed himself as Mayor, and Frank
O. Miller, who has served several times in the past as Mayor
of the City of Pembroke. We have nothing but kind words
for our good friend, C. C. Spinks. The people of Pembroke
know him, know his record as Mayor, likewise they know
Frank O. Miller, and the record that he has made the vari
ous times he has served as Mayor. You are the ones to
make the selection of who you want as your Mayor, and
we will be happy at whatever you do.
There are eight candidates for Council, they are N. L.
Ham, Eugene Mock, J. D. Cason, Purvis Brannen, Robert
Williamson, Harry Owens, Billy Miles and Hagan Dußois.
All of them are good men, and in the past years it has been
our pleasure to serve with five of the above gentlemen as
Councilmen. They all made good Councilmen, the three
that have not served as Councilmen, are all good men, young
men, and I have no doubt but that each one of them would
make a fine councilman. As said before, they are all good
men, men that will serve the City of Pembroke well if
elected, all of whom I would be happy to serve with as Mayor
if lam fortunate enough to again be elected as Mayor. If
again honored with election, I promise all the good people
of Pembroke the very best in me, to make there a Mayor
whom they can be proud of, doing the best I can at all times
for the City.
Sincerely yours,
Frank O. Miller.
Politics on Parade
By Sid Williams
The tragic death of President
John F. Kennedy will have political
effects so far reaching that no one
is now able to analyze what they
will be or to what extent they will
go. This, very obviously, will be
true both nationally and interna
tionally.
The writer does not claim, un
der any circumstances, to be quali
fied to predict any of the inter
national effects, but we do know a
little something about his nation’s
own political structure, and we
want to point out some of the
political possibilities in the com
ing year.
These, of course, evolve primar
ily around the new President, Lyn
don Johnson. First, to what ex
tent will Johnson seek to follow the
courae laid down by President Ken
nedy on such issues as the tax
cut, civil rights, budget. Medicare,
Federal aid to education, etc? Will
he push on these matters as hard
as did Kennedy, or will he let
some of this issues quietly die?
Very clearly, Johnson will not
have to make a decision during
the present session of Congress.
Even if the Congress doesn’t ad
journ for the year almost immed
iately after Kennedy’s funeral —
which is possible — very little
business will be done in either
House or Senate. So, the new
President will have until January,
when Congress returns for the
1964 session, to decide on his
course.
We would guess that Johnson
will seek to carry forward most of
the program Kennedy was push
ing. He will do so for two rea
sons, i. e., (1) the President ap
parently has been in full sympathy
with his predecessor's aims, and
(2) the political necessity of hold
ing the big city states' delegations
at next summer’s Democratic Na
tional Convention. And these big
delegations must be held if John
is to be nominated himself for the
presidency.
No person ean win the Demo
cratic nomination without the sup
port of the big city machines,
which, in turn, rely on organized
labor, the Negro and other min
ority groups support, and lower
income voters. Therefore, the can
didate who would successfully seek
the nomination must have a record
of sympathy for these segments
of our society.
As Vice-President, Mr. Johnson
did a complete about face to his
record as a United States Senator,
and became the champion of civil
rights. In fact, some people claim
that he was even stronger on this
than Pres. Kennedy. So, we may
expect him to be as adamant as
was Kennedy on this legislation.
Mr. Johnson, as Vice-President,
worked very closely with the Presi
dent on the other social phases of
Mr. Kennedy's program. He is,
therefore, very likely to continue
along thise lines.
President Johnson has a reputa
tion of having been the most able
legislative maneuverer in the Con
gress. As Majority Leader, he kept
the Senate under tight rein, dis
pensing favors when earned or
cracking the whip when he con
sidered it necessary.
Though his popularity with Con-
THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL
An Open Letter
From
Frank 0. Miller
Candidate
For Mayor
gress dropped after he became
Vice-President, particularly among
Southerners, Johnson still has
many strong ties on Capitol Hill,
and can be expected to make use
of those old alliances at the proper
time. Very likely, his relations
with Congress will be consider
ably improved over that of Presi
dent Kennedy’s.
As far as Georgia is concerned,
we are fortunate that Senators
Herman Talmadge and Dick Rus
sell worked in harmony with John
son when he was Majority Leader.
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Lately, it is said, he and Senator
Russell have developed a coolness
between them, but we doubt that
this has progressed to the point of
no return.
Talmadge is particularly fond
of Johnson, and can be expected to
find the White House doors wide
open in welcome. The Senator has
said to us many times that he con
sidered Johnson about the most
brilliant statesman in Washington.
In Georgia, Lyndon Johnson has
many good friends, chief among
which is probably former Gover
nor Ernest Vandiver. All will be
remembered, then-Governer Van
diver led the Georgia delegation to
Los Angeles for the Democratic
National Convention of 1960 and
cast our votes right down the line
for Johnson for President. Later,
after Kennedy was nominated,
Vandiver was one of those who
helped persuade Johnson to accept
the nomination for Vice-President.
We would think that President
Johnson can’t help remembering
that.
As we said in the beginning,
we’re not qualified to talk about
the international political effect of
the change in Presidents, but on the
national level, we believe that Lyn
don Johnson will be a strong Presi
dent and be able to bring back
national unity. After all, Lyndon,
like Henry Clay of early America,
is known as “the great Comprom
iser.” And the phrase was used
as a compliment.
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