Collins Charges State With 'Neglect'; Goldwater Attacks Kennedy Program

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 6--Sen. Barry Goldwater tonight opened his drive for the White House by claiming that the Kennedy program is a liability for President Johnson but the Chief Executive is stuck with it.

"These inherited proposals he must not, cannot reject--or even materially revise," the Arisona Republican said in the first speech of his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.

In a speech prepared for a party fund-raising dinner, he also said that "a mind fed by communism" produced the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

"To anyone who blames America for the tragedy which struck in Dallas, I say you libel our people and purposely misread our politics. It was not a mind nurtured by American philosophy that turned to violence," he said. Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused slayer of President Kennedy, described himself as a Marxist, although he was American.

Gold water said, President Johnson is "a leader bound by the commitments of his party. And in that role I shall and do oppose him with all the strength I can muster."