https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/683095eaaa72b8220e8030dcefefdfe2.pdf c34b182bb88431457b0d9d7cf734c0f5 PDF Text Text Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a Tinformation D E P A R T M E N T OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Subject. Date i.^:.2-ll.§2. Publication %x- l}}1.3.?l.J.°l^...?Xmes ^7-//-7 Johnson Message: A Policy WeB% Spun From a Tangle of Advice) By MAX FRANKEL Special to The New YorK rimes WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—A Yet was more than a speech. White House aide said it was It was a collection of ideas, atlike playing a giant accordion: titudes, rulings and recommena great^compression to produce dations winnowed from millions one big sound—the State of the of written words and hundreds Union Message—followed im- of conferences, and gathered litmediately by a great pulling erally in dozens of typewrit-' apart. ten snippets. It was a process* Por months, a contentious bf decision, wide-range and inbureaucracy had squeezed from tensive. opposite directions on almost ^5^iBfin : ^K^ea^gil»^»<!HV every issue. For months to come, the Congress will now pull away. For the country at large, the speech was the first good look at President Johnson after weeks of seclusion and agonized brooding at his Texas ranch. For men of conviction and power around the Government, it was a sudden- unveiling of the order of the day, a mandate] for some and a bitter signal for] others to "regroup, for another battle another'day. L 'I f One "of the few sensations of .Congressional pressure at the jWhite House came on1 the sub-j Iject -jot an-anti-missile defense! (system. With evidence accumu-j flating t h a t the Soviet Union has istarted to_deploy such a system,* ,the Joint Chiefs of Staff recorrt-' amended unanimously that the] •Administration follow suit,- andj. jthe- many supporters of thei .armed services on Capitol Hill •made plain their determination Ito make an issue of the subject.] S | Defense Secretary Robert S.] 'McNamara and many others in and out of the Administration were adamantly- opposed. An anti-missile program of questionable value, built in response to disputed intelligence estimates of Soviet intentions, they' argued, would commit the na-^ tion to an outlay of at least $3-J billion and eventually to as much' as $40-billion. Inevitably* it would distort budgets and domestic programs for year's to come. The argument continued almost to the end of the year, and the pressures were so great that many White House aides believe Mr. Johnson's refusal to ibuy an anti-missile system now was the most courageous decision in the entire messageiwriting process. | He concluded that too much iwas at stake not to await another appeal to Moscow to curbthe arms race, despite widespread doubt among his advisers that the Soviet Government' would be hospitable to the V appeal. There' was doubt also that tlie Congress would heed Mr. Johnson's . request for further acts of East-West accommodation, despite the war in Vietnam and despite the arms- race. He failed to obtain authority to lift trade 'restrictions last year and failed for two years to get Senate' approval of a consular convention with the Soviet Union. i But behind renewed requests was the desire to demonstrate to his distant audience in the Kremlin that he remained eager, to get on withJhe business of debate. Behind them also was the Hope bf early agreement on a treaty to prohibit the spread of nuclear weapons, a treaty, Jthati. ttiijght/prove , so popular] farourfd 'the country that it ;would' suddenly alter the mood j.of Congress. > 000190 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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