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repeatedly to arrange a Texas visit for Kennedy from early 1; 62 on, but that lie delayed it f r personal reasons. He said the Kennedy adminis- ttation was unpopular in Texas SEC.-PION ONE—PAGE TWEI al the time. 1;:.I was desperately trying to play for my own campaign and tO, rally support, and the last ONNALLY TALKS Wrig I wanted was a national allempt for support or political OF JFK'S TRIP money," Connally said. ;However, Connally said he fi- r/ply agreed to the 1963 visit be- Went to Dallas for Own ci1use he knew "if I couldn't ral- Purposes, View ly:support for my own party's Piesident in my own state, it vitould be a political embarrass- NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. dent that I would not be al- John Connally of Texas says kfted to forget." President John F. Kennedy WANTED TO TALK went to Dallas four years ago 'Connally said he dissuaded for his own political purposes— Kennedy from his original plan not to patch up a feud between Lyndon B. Johnson and Sen. Ralph Yarborough. "President Kennedy wanted to visit Texas with two distinct purposes in mind," Connally skid in an article in the current Life magazine. "The first was four fund-raising dinners in to raise funds. The second was 'or Iouston, San Antonio, Fort to improve his own political po- sition in a state that promised to Worth and Dallas, telling him it would look like "you are trying tie critical in the election of 1$64." to financially rape the state." 'Connally, who was wounded He said Kennedy told him when Kennedy was assassinated that, besides fund-raising, he in a Dallas motorcade Nov. 22, wanted to talk to conservative 1963, said the idea that Kennedy Texas business men to convince went to heal the Johnson-Yar- them that "they don't have any borough rift was "ridiculous." reason to fear my administra- ."First, both men operated in tion." Washington, not in Texas," Con- Kennedy finally settled for nally said. "One was across the visits to the four main cities, street from the President and and a single $100-a-plate dinner one was less than a mile away, in Austin, which Texans consid- aid Washington would have er as "neutral ground," Connal- been the place to settle it. ly said. Connally said it was his idea NEVER INTRUDE that Mrs. Kennedy accompany "Second, Presidents never in- her husband as it "would make sert themselves into such guar- the trip seem less politically or- r€is, for they can only get hurt. iented." Third, the President couldn't Connally said he opposed the have settled it anyway: the Dallas motorcade "fearing not quarrel is implacable." violence but embarrassment." Connally said the Johnson- "I was afraid of rude signs or Yarborough rift was so bad that that the crowds might be hos- Yarborough refused to ride in tile, or, what is almost as bad, fir same car with Johnson in apathetic or sullen." Spn Antonio and Houston. In Fort Worth, the next morn- ing, Connally said Kennedy. asked him about it, and said, "'He'll ride with him today, or he'll walk." ,Yarborough rode with John- son when the motorcade left Fort Worth, and they rode to- Other again in Dallas. ;Connally said he was urged .

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