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."
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