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...section deal with Honolulu and related issues. Ron Kriss, who wrote the Man of the Year story, also wrote the Rusk article and this week's principal Viet Nam stories in NATION. Jason McManus, who did the cover on the peace offensive, also wrote this week's Ky cover, again aided by Researcher Joanne Funger. It will not be their-or TIME'S-last cover on Viet...
...that the leaders of the two governments met face to face for the first time and came to understand their mutual aims. Most U.S. officials were convinced that while past Vietnamese leaders might have given short shrift to the social and political transformation of their country, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky fully understands the necessity for such a program. "We are dedicated to the eradication of social injustice among our people," said Ky. "We must bring about a true social revolution...
...military aspect of the war that Johnson emphasized when Premier Nguyen Cao Ky flew in from Saigon with 47 other Vietnamese and U.S. officials, including U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. "They fight on," the President said of the South Vietnamese. "They fight for the essential rights of human existence, and only the callous or the timid can ignore their cause." From then on, however, the keynote was "construction" in Viet Nam-so much so that the President advised Barry Zorthian, U.S. Public Affairs Chief in Saigon: "Barry, every time I see a picture of a battle in the papers...
...sparkling Hawaiian Hills over Pearl Harbor, to breezy hotel suites in Honolulu, the Americans and their Vietnamese counterparts spoke of crops and classrooms, highways and hospitals. The President let it be known that he expected the talk to be followed by action. After posing for pictures with Ky and Chief of State General Nguyen Van Thieu at Camp Smith, he steered them into the office of Pacific Commander Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp Jr. for a ten-minute talk. There he told them that while he could not personally return with them to Viet Nam, he wanted the best...
...President told Ky he would like to meet him in Honolulu in three to six months to see if "we have only talked or something has been accomplished." That reminded him of a story about two poker players. As the President told it, the first player asked, "What do you have?" "Aces," said the second. "How many aces?" asked the first. "One aces," replied the second. "I hope," said the President, "we don't find out we only had one aces." In fact, the President was surprised and deeply impressed by the determination and political awareness of the Vietnamese...