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...Pacific, spending more time in the air (36 hours) than on the ground (31 hours), it was only natural that the nation should expect dramatic results. There were none. Johnson simply reaffirmed his determination to stand fast in Viet Nam until Hanoi is ready to talk. And judging from Ho Chi Minh's envenomed rejection of the latest U.S. peace proposal, Hanoi is far from ready...
...Ho's reply was as polemical as Johnson's was restrained. "Half a million U.S. and satellite troops have resorted to the most inhuman weapons and the most barbarous methods of warfare," he charged. Accusing the U.S. of "monstrous crimes" and of waging a "war of aggression," Ho insisted that he would not consider peace talks unless the U.S. "unconditionally" halted its bombing of the North and "all other acts...
...Ho's intemperate, irrational language only underscored the President's seriousness and perseverance in seeking an end to the war. Even his longtime antagonist on Viet Nam, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, acknowledged that Johnson's approach had been "very reasonable." One of the few voices raised against the Administration was, not unexpectedly, that of New York's Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who maintained that Johnson had raised the price for peace talks by adding "the further condition that we have evidence that Hanoi has already ceased infiltration before we stop...
...most Negro leaders are opposed to the President on the war. Nevertheless, Brooke noted that "those most familiar with the East Asian mentality are convinced that the enemy still waits, still aspires to victory through collapse of the American will. Let there be no doubt in the mind of Ho Chi Minh or anyone else that the American people will persevere in their fundamental support of the South Vietnamese...
Hello again, girls again. Red light, you lucky devils. Up to the curb in the little red car, push on the handle and the door's ajar; and here are two tall boys. Tally ho, Tally ho...