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2 Oneonta Star Dec. 27, 1969 Former President Lyndon B. Johnson, pictured during the TV interview last September, says he had no doubt that he could have been re-elected if he had run for president in 196S. He felt his inability to unite the nation would ultimately prevent him from administering the office to his satisfaction. See story on right.

(AP wirephoto) 'Stop and Frisk' order at Festival HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -As authorities checked for hidden narcotics, rock music fans arriving in South Florida for a three-day festival headlining pop music groups and evangelist Billy Graham. Technicians fought stiff, chilly winds as they raced to meet the festival's scheduled midnight start at the Miami-Hollywood Speedwy. A girl lighting technician was taken to the hospital when hit head by collapsed scaffolding. County Sheriff Ed Stack and a small contingent of officers checked the speedway during the day in what he said was a final survey hidden drugs.

The officers were armed- with a new "stop and frisk" ordinance adopted 4-0 Tuesday by the county commission expressly for the festival. Noting reports of widespread drug use at the Thanksgiving weekend rock festival in nearby Palm Beach County, Robert Berkelew, Broward Commission chairman, told Stack: "This ordinance has done its best to forestall this happening here. This ordinance will give you the power to do your job better." Palm Beach County Sheriff William Heidtman' told a congressional investigating committee in Miami early this month that $1 million worth of drugs was brought into the festi- Officers arrested 152 persons, but. Heidtman 'said 5,000 could have been arrested if deputies had been available. The stop-and-frisk ordinance gives officers the power to conduct a search without a warrant they believe a person may be carrying narcotics.

Maj. Thomas'Atkinson, commander, of the officers at the festival, said: "We're to search known narcotics violators, not just Graham will preach at 11 a.m. Sunday. Continuous music will be provided over the 72- hour festival by groups including the Turtles, Dead, King James Version and the New Japanese Anti-Sterility Movement. In a telegram to the festival promoter, Graham said, "1 really dig this generation of young people--they, are great.

They are the most exciting and challenging generation in American history. Jesus was a young revolutionary who transformed his generation. Today's young people should make the 70's the greatest decade in American history." Promoter Norman Johnson predicted 35,000 persons would attend the festival. Some 200 doctors, interns and nurses volunteered to man first-aid stations equipped to treat drug-induced ailments. No gifts for POWs but OK for Hanoi VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) North Vietnam refused Friday let H.

Ross Perot deliver two plane loads of gifts to American prisoners, but the Texas industrialist said Hanoi is considering his alternate offer to give the 1,400 canned Christmas dinners to North Vietnamese war orphans. Perot met for an hour and ,15 minutes with Vu Tien, acting North i a charge d'affaires, then told newsmen: "We were refused permission to fly our planes in and I was refused permission to fly to Hanoi myself to present my proposals to the North Vietnamese government." Perot said his other proposals were: --To fly the medical supplies, personal gifts, mall and clothing to Moscow as the only way to meet North Vietnam's deadline of Dec. 31 for accepting Christmas parcels for war prisoners. Hanoi had told him to mall the packages by way of Moscow --To Inspect prisoner of war camps in South Vietnam, then travel to Hanoi to offer financial nnd other help to North Vietnamese families to send parcels lo thoso held in South lie said this would prove we are strictly humanitarian in our outlook--that we are interested in helping all prisoners, not just Americans." Built-in aids ironing task the headache of ironing is up. A built-in ironing board is siill the nearest, simplest solution and takes up little space.

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Concealed or decorative door Jilngcs and hardware may be used, Kennedys urged him to run in '56 says LB NEW YORK (AP) Lyndon B. Johnson says the late Joseph P. Kennedy, with the bucking of Sen. John F. Kennedy, urged Johnson in 1955 to run lor president the following year.

In a CBS-TV taped interview with Walter Croukile at the Johnson ranch in Texas, the former president said he told the elder Kennedy, "I had no ambitions to be president, that I Ihought it would be a mistake for me to be a candidate." "In the fall of '55 when was here at the ranch." Johnson said, "Sen. Kennedy's father, Joe Kennedy, called me and ha said that lie had talked to Sen. John Kennedy and that they had concluded that 'they would like to support me for president in the '56 election, and they wanted the go-ahead to do so." Despite his belief that the American people thought him "an extremely ambitious man who sought power, who enjoyed using it and whose greatest desire was to occupy the top job in American political. life," Johnson said he never aspired to the presidency. Johnson's name was offered at the Democratic convention in 1956, but Adlai Stevenson won the nomination.

John Kennedy beat Johnson, for the nomination in 1960, then chose him for vice president. Johnson became president on Kennedy's death in 1963. The only reason he ran for re-election in 1964, Johnson said in the Interview, was that his wife, l.ndy Bird, urged him to. Johnson sad he had no doubt he could have been re-elected in but, again acting on the advice of Mrs. Johnson, chose not to run.

h'rom the very first, Johnson said, he doubted his ability--by birth, education, and background--to he president. "First of all," he said, "it's been very clear to me that I had certain disadvantages those disadvantages I thought were upbringing, educational advantages and general, summed up in one sentence, a general inability to stimulate, inspire and unite all the people of the country, which I think is an essential function of the presidency. "Now I have never really believed that I was the man to do that particular job. I always felt that every job I had was too big for me." Johnson said his decision not to seek re-election in 1968 stemmed from a note in May 1964 from Mrs. Johnson in which she said: "Yes, you've got to run again (in 1964).

But if you do, you've got to do it with the understanding and with the knowledge that three months- three years and three months from the time you take the oath --that that would make it March 1968--you can say to the people a you're not going to succeed to another term." March 31, 1988, the day he announced his decision not to seek a second full term, Johnson noted, "was the final day the end of three years, three months." An additional factor In his not running, Johnson said, was that he "was convinced that there were forces In my own party, that there were forces in the molders of public opinion in this country that would continue to oppose a tax bill, to arouse questions (hat would make peace in Vietnam Impossible, that would continue to agitate in the cities for the effect it would have on the president who would be the Democratic nominee." After his announcement not to run again, Johnson said, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy visited him for a "very friendly conversation" and told him, "You're a courageous and very dedicated man." Asked if his decision was Influence by the strength of the antiwar candidacy of Sen. Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire presidential primary, Johnson replied: "If you're asking me in an indirect way whether I had any doubt about my election as president, the answer is an absolute, positive Now you can call that egotistical, and you can call that arrogant, If you want to. But 1 cull It professional evaluation "I don't think you really seriously thought that McCarthy would sweep the country or that Kennedy would, or that whoever --(S Dakota Sen, McGovern--would.

Nixon's a very formidable candidate, hut I had doubts about what had happened in the '64 campaign than about what happened in the '68 campaign." Monthly medicare premium jumps to $5.30 July 1 announces Finch By GARDNER L. BRIDGE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The $4, monthly premium for medi- care will go up to $5.30 starting next July 1. This was announced Friay by Secretary Robert H. Finch of the Health, Education and Welfare Department. He said the present $4 premium rate, set in December 1968, is "too low to cover costs during the current premium period," and he added that the special Medical Insurance Trust Fund is now drawing on its reserves.

President Nixon forecast a "substantial increase" in the premium rate last Sept. 26 when he asked Congress for a 10 per cent raise in Social Security benefits. Congress voted 15 per cent raise in Social Security payments and this now awaits Nixon's action. More than 19 million Americans are now covered by medi- care, the voluntary medical insurance program that supplements the basic hospital insurance part of medicare by helping to pay doctors bills and a variety of other medical x- penses in and out of the hospital. The monthly premium was $3 when the program started in 1966.

It was increased to $4 in 1968. The premiums paid by people 65 and older who are enrolled in the medical insurance part of medicare cover half the cost of their protection. The other half comes out of general federal revenues. Finch said the premium should have been increased' last December, in accordance advice from Social Security actuaries. Failure to do so, he said, makes it necessary now "to provide for a somewhat higher margin of contingency than would otherwise be necessary." He said about half of the $1.30 increase--64 cents--is needed "just to finance the program at the level of current operations." The other 66 cents will be needed, he said, for the following purposes: Twety-six cents to cover an estimated increase of about 6 per cent in the level of physicians' fees; about 12 cents to cover an estimated increase of 2 per cent in the use of medicare services; about 6 cents because the $50 deductible which a patient pays will be a smaller proportion of the total covered charges; and 22 cents to provide a 4 per cent margin for contir? gencies.

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