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Oregon daily _ _
emerald
An Independent Student Newspaper
Vol. 74, No. 101 Tuesday, January 23, 1973
Sympathy marks
local reaction
to LBJ death
Local reaction to the death of former President Lyndon Johnson
was marked by sympathy and mention of Johnson’s escalation of the
Vietnam War.
Former Senator Wayne Morse, probably the most outspoken critic
of Johnson’s Vietnam policy said, “The news just received of the
sudden and unexpected death of Lyndon Johnson shocks me. During
our years of our service in the Senate, we worked closely together on
many vital important legislative programs.
“In January of 1SS5, as an independent I cast the deciding vote
that made Lyndon Johnson become the majority leader. He became a
great majority leader. He was the chief sculptor of a long list of
legislation in the fields of education, health, social welfare, labor, civil
rights, agriculture and many other subjects which have been carved
in the history of our nation.
“They constitute a great historic monument to his memory and to
the debt of appreciation which many generations to come will owe to
him. During his presidency, I was privileged to manage all of his
education bills in the Senate and to work closely with him on many
presidential assignments.
“We came to completely disagree on his escalating involvement of
the United States in the war in Vietnam, but we never ceased to be
friends. I am greatly saddened by his death. Mrs. Morse and I extend
to his wonderful wife and family our deepest sympathy."
Another vocal critic of Johnson’s Vietnam policy, former
Congressman Charles Porter, said of Johnson, who was majority
leader while Porter was in Congress, “My guess is that history will
give him a big minis for deepening our involvement in the Vietnam
War.
Photo by Phil Waldstein
Dena Wild, a project coordinator for RideStop. Inc., watches pre
paration of one of the blue and yellow hitchhiking signs that were
insulted through the Eugeae-SpringfieM area last weekend. The
RideStop signs, insUlled by Seabee Reserve volunteers, are designed
to make thumbing a ride to school safer and easier. A map of RideStop
locations is on page nine of last Thursday’s Emerald.
Heart attack claims
Johnson at ranch
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI) -
Lyndon Baines Johnson. 36th
President erf the United States,
the powerful Texan whose
dreams of wiping out poverty and
social injustice were shattered by
the Vietnam war and the violent
1960s, died of a heart attack
Monday at the age of 64.
His death less than a month
after that of the nation’s 33rd
president, Harry S. Truman, on
Dec. 26, 1972, left the United
States with no living ex
Presidents for only the third time
in its history and for the first time
in more than 100 years.
Ironically, Johnson died as
negotiators in Paris seemed on
the verge of Anally reaching a
settlement to the war which cost
him the presidency and his
dreams of bringing about another
Rooseveltian revolution —the
“Great Society”—which would
abolish poverty and racial
discrimination.
Johnson was stricken at his
LBJ Ranch in the Texas Hill
Country at 3:40 p.m. CST.
Three Secret Service agents on
the former president’s staff
administered emergency aid and
Johnson was flown in a helicopter
80 miles to Brooke Army Medical
Hospital. Dr. George
McGranahan pronounced
Johnson dead at the hospital.
Johnson’s widow, Lady Bird,
was notified at her offices in
Austin and flew immediately to
San Antonio.
The attack was his fourth over
the past 17 years. He suffered the
first when he was a U.S. senator,
the second two years ago and the
third last April 7, 1971. He
recovered from the attack at the
same hospital where he was
pronounced dead Monday.
Johnson was a robust 6-foot-3
and 200 pounds. He often bragged
of his formula for success: “Hard
work.” But he was finally
stricken during a life of ease
away from pressure politics.
Johnson did not attend the
Washington inauguration of
President Richard Nixon last
Saturday. His last public ap
pearance was that day—an Arbor
Day tree-planting ceremony
down the road from his ranch in
Central Texas.
During that final appearance,
he visited with friends for 30
minutes, shaking hands and
smiling broadly. He appeared in
good health then.
Johnson had undergone a
physical checkup last month at
Brooke.
Johnson’s most recent previous
attack was suffered April 7,1972,
at Charlottesville, Va. He
recuperated in San Antonio at
Brooke, and last Nov. 17, he said
he was making “substantial
progress” toward full recovery.
“I believe I am going to be as
good as new by the New Year,”
he said two months ago.
Lyndon B. Johnson
For the past four years,
Johnson had lived the life of a
gentleman farmer in the Texas
hills where he was raised. The
man who hitchhiked to college,
ran for his first elective office 35
years ago and rose to lead the
nation and the world had taken no
active role in politics since he left
Washington.
He was under doctor’s orders
not to make a speech at the
Lyndon B. Johnson Library in
Austin in early December when
the civil rights papers from his
White House years were opened
to the public.
Johnsoh went ahead with the
speech anyway. His talk was slow
and deliberate and he stopped
once to take a pill prescribed as a
result of his previous heart at
tacks.
Johnson became President on
Nov. 22, 1963, when Kennedy was
assassinated. In 1964 he won re
election over Republican Sen.
Barry Goldwater by a crushing 61
per cent of the vote and set about
to transform American society
by pushing through Congress the
strongest civil rights law since
Reconstruction, and a far
reaching program designed to
wipe out poverty across the
country.
But four years later he retired
from public life voluntarily when
the Vietnam War and the tur
bulent events of the times caused
a rising tide of emnity against
him
Since his dramatic an
nouncement on national
television on the night of March
31,1968, that “I shall not seek and
I will not accept the nomination
of my party for another term as
your President,” he had lived
quietly and in virtual seclusion at
the ranch in his beloved Texas
hill country.
When Lyndon Baines Johnson
was born on Aug. 27, 1908, his
rancher grandfather, Samuel
Ealy Johnson Sr., rode on horse
back around Johnson City,
Texas, telling his neighbors: “A
United States senator was born
this morning.”
Johnson’s other grandfather
had served in the legislature and
had been Texas secretary of
state. His father, Sam Jr., served
five terms in the legislature. His
mother’s antecedents included a
signer of the Texas Declaration
of Independence, a governor of
Kentucky, a member of the first
Congress of the Republic of
Texas.
He graduated from Johnson
City High School and Southwest
Texas State Teachers College at
San Marcos. For two years he
taught speech and debate in a
Houston high school, then—in a
turning point in his life—he
volunteered to work for Texas
Congressional candidate Richard
Kleberg, owner of the mammoth
King ranch, and at the age of 22
went to Washington with Kleberg
in 1932 as an assistant.
At State Board meeting
Perrin loses appeal
Portland (Special) — The State
Board of Higher Education
“ratified and affirmed” the
University’s decision to deny
former University history
professor John Perrin tenure at
its monthly meeting at Portland
State University Monday.
Perrin, now teaching at the
University of Nebraska and
unavailable for comment, was
denied re-appointment to the
University’s faculty after the end
of the 1971-72 school year. Eld
Fadeley of Eugene, Perrin’s
attorney, has said in the past that
his client would appeal to the
courts in the event of an un
favorable decision by the board.
In its action, the board
upheld University President
Robert Clark’s findings that
evaluations of Perrin’s “teaching
performance were generally,
though not uniformly favorable,”
and that his, ‘‘record to the
academic community” was
adequate but not exceptional.
Clark, in his findings, had also
stated that Perrin, who
specialized in medieval history
research, “had a very limited
record and a slow rate of
scholarly production.”
Bill drafted to add
students to State Board
SALEM (Special) — A bill which would expand the mem
bership of the State Board of Higher Education to include three
student members will be introduced in the House today by the
House Education Committee.
The bill, which was drafted by ASUO President Bill Wyatt
and Jeff Johnson, Interinstitutional Union of Students delegate,
will be read in the House some time this week and referred back
to the Education Committee. Representative Larry Perry (D
Eugene) chairs that committee and will set a hearing date after
the bill has been referred.