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Show What Now? U Prof Speculates By STEVE SWANSON Chronicle Staff Writer In an interview Sunday with Dr. S. Grover Rich, International Studies Department head, the Chronicle attempted to ascertain the possible domestic and international inter-national political ramifications of President Kennedy's assassination. ; DR. RICH POINTED out that other Presidents have been assas-inated assas-inated and the country has quickly quick-ly adjusted to the tragedy. "Never in the past have we had a Vice-. President who is so capable of assuming as-suming the responsibilities of the presidency," he said. President Johnson could very possibly have been the Democratic candidate for President instead of . Kennedy. "President Johnson is a liberal with a conservative public Image. Im-age. He has served as the Senate Sen-ate Majority Leader where he gained the respect of both Republicans Re-publicans and Democratic national na-tional leaders. Being a man of great administrative ability, President Johnson can unite and lead the countiy as perhaps no American could." Looking into the future, President Presi-dent Johnson will make no immediate imme-diate change in the policies of cabinet personnel of the Kennedy administration. 'Any changes he eventually makes will come slowly slow-ly and even then will not, in my opinion, represent a change in government policy, either foreign or domestic," said Dr. Rich. THERE MAY be certain slow changes, such as a lessening of support for foreign aid and more moderate approach to the civil rights issue, for example, but these changes would have come anyway. Certain basic policies, such as tax reductions, may pass the Congress Con-gress more easily under President Johnson than under President Kennedy because of the great respect re-spect which Congress holds for him. On the international scene we we will probably see a period of a partial standstill. The foreign nations will be waiting to see what President Johnson will do, and they will wait until they get to know the man. Probably the biggest changes . will come on the domestic scene. The death of President Kennedy will bring about a change in the possible candidates for the Republican Repub-lican Presidential nomination. THERE WILL BE men who will feel that they will now have a chance of being elected against a Democratic candidate who, no doubt will, not be as popular as was President Kennedy. |