RECTOR WINS NATIONWIDE APPLAUSE FOR NEEDLING JOHNSON
The Rev. Dr. Cotesworth Pinckney Lewis, who dared to address a question about the war in Vietnam to Johnson when he saw the president sitting in the front pew of his church [see World Outlook, November 24], has drawn nationwide acclaim in the United States. Six days after the happening, he had received 3,500 letters and 200 telegrams and the number was mounting. Of the first 1,000 letters, 97 percent were favorable; the same was true of the telegrams.
Among the disgruntled, a prominent figure was Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. of Virginia, the state where the incident occurred. He wrote a letter to Johnson regretting the rector's temerity and calling it a blot on Virginia's traditional hospitality.
When this became known, it kicked off a new controversy. An aide in the governor's