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Even considering the fact that the new President's views
on foreign policy differed from those of President Kennedy, on
the basis of a natural reaction to the death of Kennedy, one
might have expected a slower changeover. After all, President
Johnson's area of expertise is not foreign policy, and therefore
one might have expected caution in changes that may have come.
To the contrary, however, extensive changes were in the works
shortly after the assassination. In particular there seems
to have been an almost immediate change in orientation to the
third world. There is much reason to believe the Cold War was
dying out in Europe, and that the end of it: was to a great
extent symbolized by the beginning of new relations with Russia
evidenced by Kennedy's Test Ban Treaty. Kennedy had already
understood the need for a world built on something'more firm
than is possible in the context of the Cold War. He saw very
clearly his chance to end the Cold War. Drew Pearson, in his
Washington Merry-Co-Round column of January 23, 1963 outlined the
crossroad at which President Kennedy and humanity had arrived
at that critical time:
" President Kennedy today faces his greatest
opportunity to negotiate a permanent peace,
but because of division inside his own Admin-
istration he may miss the boat.
"That is the consensus of friendly diplomata
long trained in watching the ebb and flow of
world events.
!'Here are the reasons why Mr. Kennedy is
now sitting on top of the diplomatic world when
it comes to settling Berlin and other problems
of the cold war
"
Pearson then outlined the then existing conditions which
led thenUnited States and Russia to the "brink of agreement. "
President Kennedy understood these conditions; In his -American
University address he set them forth:
-49-
49.
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