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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1963)
As Vice President, Johnson Kept Informed On U.S. Secrets And Helped Shape U.S. Policy By HARRY FEROISON I nited Press International WASHINGTON il PI i - There ias a time when the top secrets if the government never were revealed tn the vice president nf the United States Harry S Truman had nn inkling about i lie attempt to build an atomic bomb until the day Franklin D. Roosevelt died and the man from Missouri was sworn in as President. Things were different when Lvndon B. Johnson took the oath of office last week. Nobody had to brief the new President be cause he had been living at the very heart of governmental sec recy for thrc? vca'v A vir president he attended almost everv meeting of the National Security Council. He not on!1' knew the secrets: his voice and his opinions had helped shape them into policy. .lohnson took command of the federal government immediate ly. He did not have to fumble and search for guidance and in formation. He began calling his key men into conferences, issu ing orders and proclaiming pol icy, such as announcing that the Kennedy program in South Viet Nam would remain unchanged. His intimate knowledge of the mechanics of government is one of the two sets of circumstances that should make Johnson's life easier as President. The other one is the great surge of sym pathy in Congress caused hy the assassination of John K. Kenne dv. At the moment the new President is in the middle of a sort of honeymoon with con gressmen who have been fight ing such key Kennedy bills as tax reduction and civil rights. It won't last long and. in fact. Senate Republican leader Ever ett M. Hirksen already has put Johnson nn notice to that effect. Must Co Fo-Tvard "The work of the nation has tn go forward. Once the shock of the tragedy has been ab sorbed, a country, like a family, is quickly faced with the reality of daily problems." Johnson's problem with Con gress is to devise some means to strike quickly and decisively in hehalt of the Kennedy Ions lative program. It is almost an impossible task. Sen. Harry Ryrd, the conservative Demo crat from Virginia, is all-powerful on tax matters. Doubt 'ess he mourns Kennedy as deeply and sincerely as any man, hut that is unlikely to budge him from the position that there cannot be a tax cut without reduction in federal expenditures. Tile voice of Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina is muted at the moment, but he will recover his powers of speech instantly when and if the time comes to lead a filibuster against the civil rights hill. All of Johnson's fornvH.ihV powers of compromise and con ciliation will be tested in the coming months. He knows all these men personally. He re spects them and they respect him. hut many senators and 'ongressmen have life-time a1 Icgiances that run much decider than their personal liking for Lyndon Johnson. Johnson almost hut not quite fiis the classic pattern of the presfdency. He was born, not 3 log cabin, but a small frame house near Johnson City, Tex., on Aug. 27. l!w. Rut his parents were poor. His father was a school teacher and there was no monev to send Lvndon to college when he was gradu ated from high school in 1!)24. He worked in a road gang for si a day. then traveled to Cali- : fornia picking up any job he could on the way. Three years of this convinced him he wanted an education and he returned to Texas and en rolled rn Southwest State Teach pis' College. It was a hard life, lie tried to earn his way hy selling books door to door and working as a janitor. There wasn't enough money coming in and in 1!)28 he dropped out of college and took a job teaching school. Rut he accumu lated enough money to go back to teachers' college and was graduated in l!i:tO. For two years he taught school in Hous ton and then was offered a job as secretary to Rep. Richard Klcbcrt, D-Tox. From that mom ent politics were in his blood and en I !37 he won his ow n way into Congress hy winning the seat in the 10lh Congressional District of Texas. On Nov. 17, 1934, Johnson mar ried a pretty Texas heiress named Claudia Taylor. They have two daughters, one attend ing the University of Texas and the other a private school here in Washington. When Mrs. Johnson was a baby, a nurse remarked "win, she's pretty as a lady bird" and at that moment the name Claud ia ceased to exist except when Mrs. Johnson signs legal docu ments. A lew weeks ago Mrs. Johnson was interviewed on a local television station and was asked how she would change her husband if she had the pow. er to do so. She thought about that one a long time and then said: "Well, I would make him tell me everv afternoon whether he was coming home for dinner and. if so, what time." HKItALI) AM) N'KIYK. Klamath Falls, Oregon Thursday, November M. 13 1 OPEN DAILY 9:30 to 5:30. 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