For the Record

Lyndon Johnson’s strike-back tactics in Vietnam getting support (somewhat belatedly) from conservatives, young, middling and mature. On the campus level last week: At Washington and Lee nearly 800, of student body of 1,100, signed resolution supporting LBJ which was, it is reported, “most gratefully” received at State Department. … In Jersey City, 750 students of St. Peter’s college staged rousing ”We Back Johnson” demonstration (one placard read: “Mao Tse-tung is a fink”). . . . The Fort Lee Chapter of New Jersey YAF is staging monster rally on May 18 (speakers: Sen. John Tower, NR editors Frank Meyer, Brent Bozell) at Teaneck auditorium: hope to demonstrate they can outdraw leftist kook rallies by filling 13,000- seat armory. (For info: Box #391, Fort Lee, N.J.—Tel. 934-1020). . . . And the grandpappy anti-appeasement outfit of them all—The Committee of One Million Against Admission of Communist China to the United Nations, 79 Madison Ave., N.Y.—is mounting nationwide petition campaign ( see editorial section) against any concession to Red China. An able attack against Red China* s admission to the UN has been written for the Committee by Sen. Dominick (R_._, Colo. ) .

As expected. The ADA is heading attack on President Johnson’s sending of the Marines to Santo Domingo. (It is “gunboat diplomacy” etc., etc. and will “encourage”Communists throughout Latin America). . . . Also heard from—violently—Sens. Morse (Ore.) and Ellender (La.), both demanding instant withdrawal. . . . Republican ranks in both House and Senate closed solidly behind the President.

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Lyndon Johnson’s strike-back tactics in Vietnam getting support (somewhat belatedly) from conservatives, young, middling and mature. On the campus level last week: At Washington and Lee nearly 800, of student body of 1,100, signed resolution supporting LBJ which was, it is reported, “most gratefully” received at State Department. … In Jersey City, 750 students of St. Peter’s college staged rousing ”We Back Johnson” demonstration (one placard read: “Mao Tse-tung is a fink”). . . . The Fort Lee Chapter of New Jersey YAF is staging monster rally on May 18 (speakers: Sen. John Tower, NR editors Frank Meyer, Brent Bozell) at Teaneck auditorium: hope to demonstrate they can outdraw leftist kook rallies by filling 13,000- seat armory. (For info: Box #391, Fort Lee, N.J.—Tel. 934-1020). . . . And the grandpappy anti-appeasement outfit of them all—The Committee of One Million Against Admission of Communist China to the United Nations, 79 Madison Ave., N.Y.—is mounting nationwide petition campaign ( see editorial section) against any concession to Red China. An able attack against Red China* s admission to the UN has been written for the Committee by Sen. Dominick (R_._, Colo. ) .

As expected. The ADA is heading attack on President Johnson’s sending of the Marines to Santo Domingo. (It is “gunboat diplomacy” etc., etc. and will “encourage”Communists throughout Latin America). . . . Also heard from—violently—Sens. Morse (Ore.) and Ellender (La.), both demanding instant withdrawal. . . . Republican ranks in both House and Senate closed solidly behind the President.