repeatedly to arrange a visit for 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 ONNALLY TALKS tO, rally support, and the last Wrig I wanted was a national allempt for support or political OF JFK'S TRIP money," Connally said. ;However, Connally said he fi- Went to for Own r/ply agreed to the 1963 visit be- ci1use he knew "if I couldn't ral- Purposes, View ly:support for my own party's Piesident in my own state, it NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. vitould be a political embarrass- of Texas says dent that I would not be al- President John F. Kennedy kfted to forget." went to Dallas four years ago WANTED TO TALK for his own political purposes— 'Connally said he dissuaded not to patch up a feud between Kennedy from his original plan 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 to raise funds. The second was 'or four fund-raising dinners in to improve his own political po- Iouston, San Antonio, Fort sition in a state that promised to Worth and Dallas, telling him it tie critical in the election of would look like "you are trying 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. NEVER INTRUDE Connally said it was his idea "Second, Presidents never in- that Mrs. Kennedy accompany sert themselves into such guar- her husband as it "would make r€is, for they can only get hurt. the trip seem less politically or- Third, the President couldn't iented." have settled it anyway: the Connally said he opposed the quarrel is implacable." Dallas motorcade "fearing not Connally said the Johnson- violence but embarrassment." Yarborough rift was so bad that "I was afraid of rude signs or Yarborough refused to ride in that the crowds might be hos- fir same car with Johnson in tile, or, what is almost as bad, Spn Antonio and Houston. apathetic or sullen." 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