COMING WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL —
The bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong June 29 was” decided’ on. personally by President Johnson in dictatorial fashion. In a speech _ the following day that reached a level of cynicism rare even for him, he sought to face down the universal condemnation voiced | throughout the world. :
Johnson claimed he was fighting the concept that "might née s right" and that he was given a mandate in the 1964 election to wage war on north Vietnam. Others can advise or criticize, "But there is only one that was chosen by the American people to decide."
Johnson won the election not because he said he could put over Goldwater's warmongering program better than Goldwater. Just the | opposite. He said, for instance, that "we'are not going North and we are not going South " and that he "knew of no plans that have been made" to escalate the war in Vietnam.