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9Rev. olson Belmont Mohr Casper Callahan Inside Report... Conrad Evans LBPs Word Gap Gale Rosen THE NEED at the Wnite Ms a result, speoob writ- sylan House foru resitlentspeech ing duties have fallen chief- ly on Mr. Johnson's two Tavel writer who can produce elo- highly.competent personal Trotter quence an command is near- agistants: Texans Bill D. Tele Room ing crisis proportions. Moyers and Jack Valenti, who have more than they Holmes In the world of the 1960s, can handle without trying Gandy a talented wordsmith is ev- to fill Sorensen's shoes. Va- ery bit as essential to a Pres- lenti managed to get away ident as a Secretary of State. from the President long President Johnson has none That is why there was so enough one day this week Indod, a priority task at to lock himself up-with a much concern within the the white House is to find Administration over Mr. some speech writers Johnson's March 16 speeeh closethe President's word to Latin American ambas- .gap. sadors assembled here for The gap was opened Feb. the third anniversary of the 18 when Theodore Sorensen Alliance for Progress. Quite left to write his memoirs apart from the President's of the Kennedy Adminis- much-criticized interpola- tion of the Panamanian tration. Though he carried issue into the speech, it was the title of White House special counsel, Sorensen a dud. Latin Ambassadors who came to be inspired was primarily a speech writ- er perhaps the best in left disappointed. Novak Evans White House history. He What the White House performed the same chore typewriter for a few hours. was trying to do.was to in the early weeks of Usually that is impossible. bring down President Ken- the Johnson Administration, Occasional help comes nedy's idealism in Latin from other White House Amarican affairs o a revel writing Mf.Johmson's mov- ing address to Congress pfficials -notably Kennedy shortly after the assassina- holdovers McGeorge Bundy, tion. special assistant for nation- al security affairs, and Wal- THE IMPACT of Soren- ter Heller, chairman of the sen's departure is compound- Council of Economic Advis- ed by the fact that Horace ers.Mr. Johnson has even Busby is not now writing tapped talented controver- speeches for Mr. Johnson. sial Richard Goodwin, once The Washington Post and Busby, a Texan who writes enfant terrible of the New Times Herald a Washington-based news- Frontier and now an anony- letter for businessmen, fre. mous Peace Corps official. The Washington Daily News quently produced Johnson MORE OFTEN than not The Evening Star speeches during the Presi- dent's Senate days. "What- this makeshift arrangement New York Herald Tribune ever eloquence you find in results in sodden, earth- New York Journal-American Johnson's speeches then was bound oratory. Thousands of Democrats paid $100 a New York Mirror. put there by Busby," says an old friend of the Presi- head to eat filet mignon New York Daily News dent's. and cheerthe President New York Post Busby was called in dur- last week at Washington's National Guard Armory. The New York Times ing the confused transition But diners who didn't rein- The Worker period after the assassina- force themselves with liq. tion, preparing the Presi- The New Leader Thanksgiving uid stimulation ahead of dent's Day time found little in Mr. The Wall Street Journal message.But a presidential The National Observer speech writer cannot fune tion from outside the White rate them. ple's world A political speech that 6F-48771-A fizzles is not the end of the world. But speeches are more than weapons of parti- NOT RECORDED 128 MAR 31 1964 MAR 26 1964: san politics today They are pstruments oknationa