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...willingness to negotiate with Hanoi-but he made it clear that he held out little hope for success. He told of one U.S. attempt to get peace talks started. It occurred during the first U.S. bombing pause in May 1965, when the Administration sent a letter proposing talks to Ho...
Johnson's calm and determined mood reflected the tough new course in the war that he charted after last month's brief bombing pause ended in failure and frustration. He is convinced that Ho Chi Minh means business when he says that North Viet Nam is ready to continue guerrilla warfare in the South "for 20, even 30 years if need be." Were the U.S. to grow irresolute in the face of such perseverance, Johnson said, "the forces of chaos would scent vic tory, and decades of strife and aggression would stretch endlessly before...
Westward, Ho! Back in the capital, the President moved to mute growing criticism from labor leaders by announcing that he was delaying his proposal to merge the Labor and Commerce departments. Faced with criticism from an other group-the Governors of the nation's states and territories, who have complained about the confusing proliferation of domestic programs-he had 49 of them over to the White House for a day of discussions and socializing. After a black-tie dinner with them, the President, still in his dinner jacket, choppered over to Dulles International Airport...
...whatever they could get-ancient weapons left over from other Asian wars, captured American or South Vietnamese arms, even crude homemade zip guns. Rifles were fashioned out of old bicycle parts; a water pipe frequently became a mortar. Then Soviet and Red Chinese arms began trickling down the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the gradual buildup began. Lately, the buildup has intensified, bringing the Viet Cong an abundance of modern weapons and ammunition. "There is no longer anything ragtag, bobtail or worn out about their main-force weapons," says Major General Joseph A. McChristian, senior American intelligence officer in Viet...
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, spring with all its fads, fancies and general nuttiness arrives, and of general folly there...