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Article: Why did LBJ allow Soviets to invade Czechoslovakia?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 19, 1988
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OOn Aug. 25, 1968, the Sunday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times
carried a story by Nicholas Daniloff, then a correspondent for UPI,
who, almost 18 years later to the day, would find himself arrested by
the KGB in Moscow and thrown into Lefortovo Prison.
The title of Daniloff's story that day was "LBJ Aimed at World
Opinion." The first paragraph ran like this: "President Johnson's
sharply worded warning against aggression in Eastern Europe was an
effort to marshal public opinion and discourage any possible Soviet
invasion of Romania."
Daniloff was referring to a speech given two days earlier by
Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington. In that speech, Johnson said the
United States had ...