FOR PRESS: PM. No. 41/ 1968
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S STATEMENT
Comment by the Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton
The statement re-emphasises two important
aspects of the approach of the United States.
One is that the United States is firmly resolved
to continue the military struggle to the point where it becomes
recognised that talks designed to secure a just and lasting peace
must take place. The other Is that the United States Is prepared
now, as it has been prepared in the past, to enter into such talks

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

_ lB ' BP4 3FING FOR HEADS OF B UREAUX,
PARLIAMENTARY PRESS GALLERY,
C ANB'ER R A 1 APRIL, 1968
PRIME MINISTER : You have all had copies of the statement, so there is
no point in reading it over to you, so here I am. What would you
like to ask about it?
Q : Can you tell us what lay behind the President's
statement. Any official or unofficial advice as to why he made
this decision?
PM: Nothing other than would appear on the surface of it
that hie does hope that this will lead Hanoi to start entering into
peace negotiations.

VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND
Recorded 30/ 3/ 6ur Telecast 313/ 68
AUJCKLAND SES C,'
INTERVIEW ON NEW ZEALAND TELEVISION 9 A m
GIVEN BY THE PRIME MINISTER, MR JOHN __ RAGORTON
Interviewer Mr David Beatson 31ST MARCH, 1968
( Beginning not recorded)
PM: it is hard tosay what the out. omewould be,
but as far as we are concerned, we are predisposed to do what we
can to help In relation to what we are asked to do to help by the
countries there.
Q. You have expressed a desire to help your good friends

VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND
AUCKLAND
OPENING OF NEW ZEALAND EASTER SHOW Ap, 16
BY MR. JOHN GORTON March 1968
Mr. ( Co-Chairman, the Right Honourable the Prime Minister,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
You, Mr. Prime Minister, have said you attached
some significance to the fact that within three months of
assuming office in Australia the first overseas trip taken
by me as Prime Minister of Australia has been to New Zealand.
But this is, I think, in no way surprising. There cannot be
two nations more contiguous than New Zealand and Australia.

VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND
AUC.-' KLAND
Speech at Civic Repto J
by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton LIBRJt1--
3C March 1966
Mr. Mayor, The Right Honourable the Prime Ministerp Ladies and
Gentlemen: You will not, I know, either expect or want the to speak
to you for any length of timie6 This is rather an occasion on which 1 say
thank you to the Mayor for having tendered to me this reception and tha nk
you to you people In this room for having been good enough to come alonig
to it. I have not, Mvr. Mayor, as you seem to fear, had to listen

NEW ZEALAND VISIT
WELLINGTON 16 APR 1968
JOINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY NEW ZEALAND
PRIME MINISTER HOLYOAKE AND AUSTR-LIAN
PRIME MINISTER GORTON 28 MAiRCH 1968
The Prime Ministers of A ustralia and New Zealand greatly
welcomed the opportunity provided by Mr Gorton's goodwill visit to New
Zealand to discuss a wide range of subjects, expecially those which
affect relations between the two countries.
Mr Holyoake and his colleagues expressed their
appreciation that it should have been to New Zealand that Mr Gorton

VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND
WELLINGTON
STATE LUNCHEON 28 March 1968
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
Mr. Prime Minister, The Deputy Leader of the
Opposition, and Distinguished Guests:
The first thing that I would wish to say to you and
to those of you who have come along to this lunch is to thank
you for the honour you have done me and to thank you for the
opportunity of having met you and your Cabinet and now having
met, even if vicariously, such a representative section of
New Zealand opinion. I do not know, Sir, whether there are in

Sø 2 APR 1968
FOR PRESS: BRAl
P. M. No. 4/ 163
ROYAL VISIT
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton
The Duke of Edinburgh, who is coming to Australia
in May primarily to attend R. H. The Duke of Edinburgh's Third
Commonwealth Study Conference", has accepted an itinerary which
will take in visits to Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and
Melbourne. The visit will begin with a ceremonial arrival in
Canberra on Saturday 11 May and end on departure from Melbourne
on Tuesday 4 June. It also provides for private weekends to be spent

FOR PRESS: PM. NO. 39/ 1968
NATIONAL LIBRARY COUNCrIL
A-. ppointment of a New Member
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton
The Prime Minister announced today that the Governor
General had appointed Dr Ursula Hoff C%-' urator of Prints and
Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria, as a member of the
Council of the National Library of Australia.
Dr Hoff, who is also a member of the Australian
Humanities Research Council, replaces Mrs Kathleen Fitzpatrick
who has resigned from the Council for personal reasons.