DID AIDE WRITE LBJ PRAISE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200630012-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 9, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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d Aide Wri-ye LBJ Praise?
MARVIN WATSON
? : ? Praise in His Pocket?
? praised President Johnson?
Some claimed it was a joint product of the governors
themselves..
But the general view was that White House aide Mar-
vin Watson just happened to have it in his pocket when he
arrived in St. Louis to brief the governors on party affairs.
Johnson didn't finally consent to show up at the meeting
until he received word by telephone that the governors had
The governors cooled their . heels for about two hours
after their meeting had ended, waiting for the President to
fly up from Texas to say their support was "music" to his
ears.
Politics and Sen. Long
Sen. Edward V. Long, D-Mo., up for re-election next
year, may face tough opposition in both the primary and
general elections as the result of the disclosure that he
shared legal fees with the attorney who represents Team-
sters Union President James R. Hoffa.
Long previously had no primary opposition, but Missouri
Democratic leaders now believe his political career has
been seriously damaged, not so much by the disclosure of
the fee-sharing but by his refusal to disclose any information
about the arrangement and thus clear the air.
In addition, Long faces a possible investigation by the
Senate Ethics Committee. As a result, Republicans are
urging Rep. Thomas B. Curtis, R-Mo., to consider making a
serious race against the senator.
Dn the Democratic side, the state's lieutenant governor,
Thomas F. Eagleton; former Gov. John M. Dalton; Rep.
Richard M. Ichord, D-Mo., W. True Davis, an assistant
secretary of the Treasury, and a number of other men are
being urged to enter the primary.
A CIA First?
The current issue of The China Quarterly, the leading
scholarly journal for China-watchers, contains an article on ,
Mao Tse-tung's cultural revolution written by Philip Bridg-
ham.
What is noteworthy is that In the biographical notes! j.i
about its contributors, the journal identifies Bridgham as "a
research analyst for the CIA."
This is believed to be the first time that one of the CIA's
analysts has been allowed to state his affiliation in an article
under his name.
Usually, such articles In scholarly journals carry the
euphemism, "a student of Chinese affairs," or the like.
Elusive Stability
Stability was the keynote of Congolese Ambassador
Cyrille Adoula's Informal talk to a meeting of the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund executive board early Wednesday
morning.
Months of negotiation then culminated in the board's
approval of the Congo's first funds from the IMF-a $27
million line of credit over the next 12 months.
It wasn't until board members got back to their desks
and picked up a summary of the morning's news that they
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