WASHINGTON: JOHNSON AND FULBRIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200910029-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 26, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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lily JAMES RESTON
t WASHINGTON, a ' a- Johnson, but public criticism of fussing privately about Ful- vorlte thesis at the White House,
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his policies from a friend is an- bright ever since. these days-that speculation on
Johnson and the Chairman of other matter. What the President Has done 'what the President may do
the Senate Foreign Relations somehow reduces his freedom;
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tell quite a lot aoout the rtes,- Senator Fulbright, in contrast, ? and political techniques he used of ' asserting the President's. v 1E {; +f
;dent's concept of his job. has been extremely careful not as majority leader,in the Sen right to do what he likes.
This not a personal feud.
The President likes the Send, ,,to exploit personal associations , ate cloakroom. He operated on Also, the President, who is'+ ~' ss
with the President to press his. Capitol Hill through a' system .? required by the Constitution to
clot. Their families were close`
when the two men were in the own foreign policy views. He of punishments and rewards .,seek the avice of the Senate
Senate together. Their wives, ':has stated his opinions when and highly personal arrange- on foreign policy, and the Sen' ' .. +~
dliest .,r ,? they were requested. But he has ments, and his system worked.,. ator differ about what this 4 It
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President statements he was . House last year on domestic In the .Congressional leaders, as
'when President Kennedy was going to make in the Senate on . policy' but the foreign policy he died tonight. and ha ke cif- x.
''looking for a Secretary of Statei ,.foreign policy for the simple ' issues are proving too serious, rectors of the l,>< L? g-tcl-
In 1961, Mr. Johnson recom-''.reason that he did not want to for personal manipulation., On ?. ~A enc the (.
mended Senator Fulbright for., involve the President in his questions. of war and peace, the Pentagon, to them Rboyt
the post, opinions. President's critics are not. re- .Nor to amass sendingltew r ;: ? '~l
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1'riencls and 1'~nemicg Their difficulties started last sponding either to social blan Vlet-
year over precisely this point. dlshments or isolation. Pam. a ca s a con su
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t I In fact, the Intimacy of the , Senator and Mrs. Fulbright ! This is especially true of ruts ,
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(,. they may be right. ' i?f: betrayed, Similarly, ?"Mr. John increase the violence in the hope Senator iq u1 g s . ay,
wtdoiibtkdly right,
There is a difference too' son was Irritated birthe Sen.. bf recouping theft loads: And' l? arid. this Is
r ,friends, especially ' If he fearbr, ten and acted as if he had bead gnd persuade the. President Too ,,'l. ana attecuon ror tne.rrea,uetu; -
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sona'l conviction in Mr, John? criticized the AdmiNetration s M T ,
#.l'son's catalogue of political vlr-';, foreign policy. The Pentagon Influence and regards these White HonseF I i!
4'tues. He can forgive hib ene-?.- The President sim ly could ' In fact, one reason why hi is sesslons not as an equal dis-' `'' ?t A
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p' y cusslon of the problem but as ay
r ntles, particularly when he, not understand the Senator's speaking out now against a re-',
.', thinks they are wrong=he'simpersonal and detached view ? newal of the bombing is hls'fear sales ? talk in which the White i k 1,
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