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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 10, 1964
Johnson To Stress Rights Bill
United Press International
President Johnson says he meant it when he promised to carry on John F. Kennedy's legislative program with special emphasis on civil rights.
He said it most emphatically Wednesday at the bottom of page six of his State of The Union Message to the Congress. By now the word must be moving through the South that "MEBBE LYNDON AINT GONNA BE AS EASY ON US AS WE THOUGHT."
Johnson's message committed him without qualification—with any avenue of retreat—to a 1964 civil rights bill to abolish not merely some but all racial discrimination. That means accommodation in public places. Moreover, Johnson said this was a moral issue. There is no area of compromise on a moral issue. The South's first U.S. President in more than 100 years is firmly committed to an all-out congressional battle for an all-out civil rights bill to which he may expect all out southern opposition.
THESE FACTS are likely to come as an unhappy surprise to many white southerners. Perhaps not typical of the South but surely of great political significance was a year-end editorial in the Cuerto (Tex.) Record which appeared under the signature of publisher Jack Howerton.
Cuero is in the big man, big hat, big spread country of south Texas where they have know Lyndon Johnson long and well. Publisher Howerton's editorial indicates that he would have been for Sen. Barry Goldwater against John F. Kennedy if the latter had been the 1964 democratic Presidential nominee.
He wrote that the nation was in safer, stronger and more experienced hands under Johnson than under JFK, remarking, too that Johnson's friends were chagrined and disappointed when the Texan accepted second place on the 1960 ticket. And, publisher Howerton adds this politically significant observation:
"PRESIDENT Johnson has acted during the first five weeks of his administration exactly as we had expected he would.
"He has gone all out in his support of the Kennedy legislative program during the period of eulogy and mourning. He also has conferred with leaders of every minority group and has sent each and every one of them away reasonably contented and happy. That is Lyndon Johnson's method of doing political business."
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