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JOHNSON'S INFERNO"
~. The White House publicity staff released a letter July 1’, allegedly written by President Johnson, paying tribute to "the immortal memory of Dante Alightert | on the- 700th anniversary of his. .death,"
The author noted that The Divine Comedy was Dante's bestknown work -= a profound observation that will no doubt please many voters in the United States of Italian ancestry.
Johnson did not rest content with this proof of.his cultural. level. Dante, it seems, is one of his main sources of inspiration, "For those who are charged with administering their nation's affairs, his provocative political ideas, expressed in his other literary masterpieces, have enduring meaning and significance."
- In any comparison between the Italian poet and the Texas politician, the former, of course, is bound to suffer. Dante left as his heritage to the world only’ an imaginary inferno. Johnson has set out to leave it with a real one,
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