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action where we might have expected inaction at least until a
longer period of adjustment. was realized. This, of course, is
not to suggest that President Johnson himself was involved in the
assassination. Two observations here are relevant. On is that
generally speaking Johnson was more weak in the realm of foreign
affairs than in domestic. The second consideration is that his
views on foreign policy would still be consistent with the mili-
tarists, and his interests would be identified with influential-
power in the military-industrial-complex. Thus, without implying
any guilt of Johnson, it must be realized that if the Cold Warriors
wanted to ensure the continuation of the Cold War in a new theater
of operation, they could depend upon Johnson, and they could control
him where they could not control Kennedy.
William S. Mhite, in The Professional: Lyndon B. Johnson,
Greenwich, Conn.1964 sets forth Johnson's view on
Asia was stated in a memorandum to President Kennedy dated May
23, 1961 following Johnson's visit to the Far East:
"The battle against Communism must be
joined in Southeast Asia with strength and
determination to-achieve success there-
or the United States, inevitably, must surrender
the Pacific and take up our defenses on our
own shores. Asians Communism is compromised
and contained by the maintenance of free nations
on the subcontinent. Without this inhibitory
influence, the island butposts-Phillippines,
Japan, Taiwan- have no security and the vast
Pacific becomesna Red Sea.
"The struggle is far from lost in
Southeast Asia and it is by no means in-
evitable that it must be lost
"There is no alternative to United
States leadership in Southeast Asia.
(pp. 153-154)
Johnson stated in 1961 what our policy Thas become after
Kennedy's assassination.
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