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President Johnson reads proclamation to reporters at the White House.—Star Staff Photo.
PRESIDENT
Johnson Will Confer
With Foreign Leaders
Continued From Pace A-I j‘
Douglas Home, who will be here j
for the Kennedy funeral.
Among his national unity ef-'i
forts yesterday, the new Pres
ident:
1. Called his first cabinet!
meeting and asked all the
members of the Kennedy cabi
net to stay on the job.
2. Emphasized to leaders of
American business and labor
the “need at this time for unit
ed effort by every segment of
our country.”
3. Counselled with former
Presidents Eisenhower and
Truman.
; 4. Enlisted the bipartisan
support of Democratic and
Republican congressional lead
ers in his second conference;
, with them in a little more than
12 hours.
Two Sunday Meetings
Working late at his desk last
night, he also arranged one im
portant Sunday conference and
a briefing.
He scheduled a 3 p.m. meet
ing with Henry Cabot Lodge,
American Ambassador to South
Viet Nam, Secretary of De
fense McNamara. Secretary of
State Rusk and McGeorge
Bundy, presidential assistant
for national security affairs,
about the situation in South
Viet Nam.
; Secretary Pierre Salinger
said Mr. Johnson would be in
his office by 10 am. today to
receive an intelligence briefing
on developments around the
world that might affect Amer
ican security.
The new President planned
to take time out from th p task
of meeting his awesome re
sponsibilities to attend 11 a m.
services at St. Mark's Episcopal
Church.
Then, at 12:40 p.m., he
planned to drive to the Exec
utive Mansion to ride behind
a horse-drawn caisson carrying
Mr. Kennedy's body to the
Capitol, where it will lie in
state later today.
Pays Respects at Bier
As President Kennedy’s body
lay in repose in a flag-draped
casket in the White House East
Room, the new President car
ried on the business of govern
ment from his old vice presi
dential offices in the Executive
Office Building across West
Executive avenue.
Mr. Johnson left his office
about 11 a.m. to join with his
wife in paying his respects at
the bier of the young man who
had persuaded him to run as
his Vice President three years
ago. There he also spent a few
moments consoling the grieving
widow before returning to his
old office.
In mid-afternoon, he crossed
the street to the White House
again to preside, for the first
time, at a meeting of the Presi
dent’s cabinet in the White
House Cabinet Room.
Mr. Salinger said President
Johnson opened the meeting
with one minute of silent pray
er for President Kennedy.
Asks Cabinet’s Help
“Then he gave a short
speech to the members of the
cabinet,” Mr. Salinger report
ed,’’ in which he asked them to
continue to serve. He said he
peeded their help in the time
ahead.”
Mr. Salinger added that Sec
retary of State Rusk and Ad
lai Stevenson, Ambassador to
the United Nations, responded.
“They both pledged the sup
port of the cabinet,” he said.
BANNER GLASS
WILL BE CLOSED
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25th, 1963
IN RESPECT OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY
"and said the cabinet was pre
pared to serve the President as
long as he wanted them to
serve.”
! All members of the Kennedy j
cabinet were there, including
the slain President’s brother,;
Attorney General Robert P.j
Kennedy.
Mr. Salinger also announced
that President Johnson yester
day telephoned George Meany,
president of the AFL-CIO, and
Frederick Kappel, president of
the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co. and of the Busi
ness Council, an organization of
businessmen often called upon
to advise the Government.
Pledge Their Support
In his talks with these lead
ers of labor and of business,
Mr. Salinger said, the President
“stressed the need at this time
for unified effort for every seg
ment of our country.”
i The Press Secretary told
reporters that he understood
both Mr. Meany and Mr. Kap
pel "pledged their support to
the President In this effort."
Former Republican President
Eisenhower, Mr. Kennedy’s im
mediate predecessor, was
among the first to call at the
White House yesterday to pay
his respects to the slaln-Presi
dent.
Wearing a black mourning
band on his left arm he came In
while President Johnson was
upstairs with Mrs. Kennedy
and waited in the Blue Room
until Mr. Johnson came back
downstairs. They went together
over to the office which Mr.
Johnson is using until he
deems it proper to move into
the President's office in the
White House West Wing.
Lunches With Eisenhower
Gen. Eisenhower had lunch
with the President in his tem
porary office. Mr. Salinger re
ported the two men discussed
“various trouble spots around
, the world.”
He said the President ar
ranged to have Mr. Bundy,
’ give Gen. Eisenhower an up
to-date briefing on the situa
tion around the world.
Gen. Eisenhower and Mr.
! Johnson, who as Senate Demo
’ cratlc Leader was one of the
Senate’s most powerful voices
; during the Eisenhower years
j in the White House, long have
1 had mutual respect and liking
’ for each other despite the fact
j that they are members of op
* posing political parties.
’ Mr. Johnson then arranged
| to confer in his office with for
! mer President Truman at 4:45
j p.m. Mr. Truman, flying here
, from Kansas City yesterday,
j. first arrived at the White
. House at 2:40 p.m., viewed the
, casket containing Mr. Ken
nedy’s body, then went upstairs
t to the family living quarters
; and spent 15 minutes with Mrs.
- Kennedy.
Mr. Johnson arrived at the
White House west basement
t entrance at 8:55 a.m. from his
e Spring Valley home to begin
. his first full day in office,
j Mr. Salinger said Mr. Jphn
e son conferred briefly with At
e torney General Kennedy in the
Presidential office.
Then the new President wenl
. with Mr. Bundy to the Whitt
o House "situation room” in the
1. basement, where Central Intel
- ligence Agency Director Johr
l, A. McCone briefed him on th<
i latest Intelligence from inter
national trouble spots.
Shortly after 9:30 Mr. John
son walked across West Execu
tive avenue to his old office,
where he conferred separately
with Secretary of State Rusk
and Secretary of Defense
! McNamara.
Republican and Democratic
leaders of the House and Sen
| ate, who had first met with the
I new President and pledged him
! their support last night a few
hours after he had taken the
i oath of office, came in for an-1
| other brief conference. There
was no announcement on the
subjects discussed.
Phones Widow of Slain Officer
During the busy day of
trying to keep the Government
running on an even keel. Mr.
Johnson found time to tele
’ phone his condolences to Mrs.
J. D. Tippitt, widow of the Dal
las policeman who was killed
yesterday afternoon by the
same man police believe assas
sinated Mr. Kennedy.
Mr. Salinger said the Presi
' dent also talked during the aft
' j ernoon with former Pennsylva
nia Gov. David Lawrence, now
serving as executive director of
the President’s Committee on
1 Equal Opportunity in Housing.
He said he did not know the
5 substance of that talk.
t The new President's meeting
with his cabinet, which began
’ at 2:30 p.m., lasted 25 minutes.
, In addition to all members of
' the cabinet—and Ambassador
' | Stevenson is counted as a cabi
net member—Mr. Salinger said
those present included the fol
-1 lowing White House staff
‘ members in the Kennedy ad
‘ ministration: ___
, Theodore C. Sorensen, spe
cial counsel: Dr. Jerome Wies
i ner. science adviser: Dr. Walter
Heller, chairman of the Council
, of Economic Advisers: Budget
‘ Director Kermlt Gordon, Timo
, thy J. Reardon, an admin
istrative assistant, and Mr. Sal
inger.
George Reedy, who long has
1 served as a member of Mr.
■ Johnsons staff, and William
■ j Moyers, a former assistant to
I Mr. Johnson, now serving as
I I deputy director of the Peace
1 Corps, also attended the cabl
- net meeting.
, Mr. Salinger said no formal
- resignations were offered.
Prom the State Department
came word that American am
bassadors abroad have been
■ asked by President Johnson to
e remain at their posts. The
s President sent them a message
5 saying resignations are not re
-5 quired nor desired because of
®'the change in the admlnistra
-1 tion.
Solemn-faced, a catch in his
throat and a suspicion of tears
i in his eyes, Mr. Johnson ap
peared in the White House
5 conference room shortly before
e ! 5 p.m. and before television
r, cameras, read his first presi
dential proclamation, designat
e ing Monday as a national day
. of mourning for Mr. Kenney.
s He said:
s “As he did not shrink from
. his responsibilities, but
welcomed them, so he would
e not have us shrink from carry
t ing on his work beyond this
s hour of national tragedy."
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In Honor of the Memory of
it J
*
[ e Our Beloved President
n
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rogers Peet Co.
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Will Be Closed
Monday, November 25
TEXT OF PROCLAMATION
Day of Mourning Set
President Johnson issued the following proclamation
to the people of the United States:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the
United States, has been taken from us by an act which
outrages decent men everywhere.
He upheld the faith of our fathers, which is freedom
for all men. He broadened the frontiers of that faith,
j
and backed it with the energy and the courage which
are the mark of the Nation he led.
A man of wisdom, strength and peace, he moulded
and moved the power of our Nation in th seervice of a
world of growing liberty and order. All who love freedom
will mourn his death.
As he did not shrink from his responsibilities, but
welcomed them, so he would not have us shrink from
11 carrying on his work beyond this hour of national
tragedy.
He said it himself: ‘‘The energy, the faith, the
devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our
• country and all who serve—and the glow from the fire
can truly light the world.”
Now, therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of
i the United States of America, do appoint Monday next,
; | November 25, the day of the funeral service of President
5 Kennedy, to be a national day of mourning throughout
{ the United States. I earnestly recommend the people
i to assemble on that day .ia their respective places of
( divine worship, there to bivldown in submission to the
r will of Almighty God, and to pay their homage of
love and reverence to the memory of the great and
1 good man.
f I Invite the people of the world who share our
grief to Join us in this day of mourning and rededica
. | tion.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
. and caused the seal of thg United States of America to
1 be affixed.
\ Done at the city of Washington this twenty-third
day of November in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen
Hundred and Sixty-Three, and of the independence of
the United States of America, the One Hundred and
5
. | Eighty-eighth.
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Biologists from 30 to 60 na
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r. in the International Biological
Program, for the study of man’s
n place in the world, and hope
t fully, to enlarge available re
d sources for his future welfare.
- The program is to begin in
s 1965 and may last five to seven
years.
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INTERPRETIVE REPORT
Space Aims Seen Unchanged
By WILLIAM HINES
Star Staff Witter
The Nation's space program
la not likely to undergo much
change under President Lyn
don B. Johnson, either in scope
or in the vigor with which it is
pushed
The reasons are twofold and
simple.
First. Mr. Johnson is fully as
enthusiastic about the space
program as was Mr. Kennedy, i
if not more so. Second, the new
President has been in on the
| space program from its start,
and through the 34 months of
President Kennedy's tenure
was "Mr. Space."
President Johnson was head
of a Preparedness subcommit
tee in the Senate at the time
the Russians orbited Sputnik
six years ago.
Using the tremendous pres
tige of his position as Senate
Majority Leader, he launched
an inquiry into the N ati o n ‘s
space posture, and subsequent
ly brought about organization of
a special Senate committee
which grew into the present
standing committee on aero
nautical and space sciences.
As long as he was in the
Senate, Mr. Johnson along
with his fellow Southwestemer,
the late Senator Robert 8. Kerr
of Oklahoma—kept an eagle
eye on the space effort. The
I No. 1 Democrat in the closing
1 years of the Republican ad
ministration, he was continu
ally pushing President Eisen
hower for more ambitious
undertakings in what he clearly
regarded as a headlong race
i with the Russians.
| More than any other man.
President Johnson is personally
responsible for the National
Aeronautics and Space Act ol
1958 and the sprawling agency
| which it created. A draft ver
sion of the space bill, prepared
downtown, was ripped aparl
and rewritten by Mr. Johnson
and the then House Majority
Leader (now Speaker), John
McCormack, behind closed
doors on Capitol Hill in the
summer of 1958.
Having written the bill, th<
two congressional powerhouse:
rammed it through their res
pective chambers vlrtuall:
without debate and presentee
the measure to Mr. Eisenhowe:
for signature. The then Presi
dent, never much of a spaci
enthusiast, insisted upon i
clause stipulating “use of oute
space for peaceful purposes so
the benefit of all mankind."
That was about the onl;
contribution Mr. Eisenhowe
.made to the law; the rest wa
practically pure LBJ.
Under Mr. Eisenhower, th
top-level National Aeronautic!
and Space Council set up i
the Space Act' was never ac
tually formed. The Presiden
its titular head, dealt wit
space matters through the Ni
tional Security Council.
With the advent of the Ken
nedy administration, the spac
program immediately grew ii
importance, largely throug]
Mr. Johnson's urging. Th
Space Act was amended t
make the Vice President heai
of the council, whose member
included the Secretaries o
State and Defense, the Atoml
Energy Commission Chalrmai
and the administrator o
NASA.
Under then Vice Presiden
Johnson, the council took oi
real meaning. A small an
quite capable staff was organ
ized under Dr. Edward C. Welsh
former aide to Senator Sym
sa.ington, Democrat of Missour
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While thinking big about space, i
the council staff insisted in i
thinking small in bureaucratic .
terms Only about 20 people ,
work under Dr. Welsh.
The Johnson-organized coun- !
cil staff prepared the studies
which the Vice President used
to persuade President Kennedy
in the spring of 1961 that a 1
manned lunar landing should
1 be undertaken "before the dec
ade is out.”
>| In both public and private
talks the new President repea t
! edly had evinced his enthusi
; asm for the space program and
his grasp of the far-reaching
- ramifications involved.
In the fall of 1961. this
’ reporter toured the West and
’ South with the then Vice Pres
' ident in his role as Space
1 Council chairman. For many
hours between stops we sat in
the cabin of the big preslden
: tial Jet and talked space. On
* this topic—and there can be no
s doubt about it—Mr. Johnson
■ does his homework and knows
‘ his subject.
*j On a few occasions, Mr.
1 Johnson appeared to have been
carried away by his space fer
vor. at times clearly overstating
e the benefits accruing to the
* national economy from the
large expenditures of the space
r ! effort. Lately, however—at the
p urging of his aides—he had
J moderated his claims, without
* I in any way muting his enthusi
* asm.
. 1 In recent weeks Mr. Johnson
s and his Space Council staff
y had been busy working over
e the fiscal 1965 space budget. It
is understood that he was
to ask Mr. Kennedy
y for $5.5 billion, a little less
1 than was requested this year
if but somewhat more than was
y: appropriated.
As the man with the say-so
d now, Mr. Johnson’s approval of
T this figure is hardly open to
n doubt.
y j One subject which is open to
" speculation is how the new
President will respond to the
Air Force’s unceasing demand
for a larger manned role in
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German police said.
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