FOR PRESS: P.M.NO 42/1968 PRESIDENT JOHNSON STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. JOHN GORTON
FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 42/ 1968
PRESIDENT JOHNSON
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
I do not think it proper to comment on the decision
taken by President Johnson not to seek re-election, other
than to say that we in Australia will always remember with
gratitude the warmth and special consideration which he has
shown to us during his Presidency.
He has had to bear immense burdens and make momentous
decisions and carry the responsibility for those decisions
and I believe he has made them on the basis of what he sincerely
believed to be right, and to the ultimate benefit of freedom
inside the United States and outside that country. He is a
great man.
CANBERRA 1 April 1968
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