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...story on President Johnson's peace offensive, and this in turn was succeeded three weeks later by the cover on Dean Rusk and the resumption of bombing raids on North Viet Nam. After a one-week interval, the current story on Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky focuses on "the other war"-the essential effort to rebuild a devastated nation. To symbolize this in the cover painting, we chose the clasped-hands emblem of AID (Agency for International Development), which appears on all shipments of supplies from...
Cover stories about Viet Nam require massive amounts of work at high speed. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, who has headed TIME'S coverage of the war for more than two years, had spent a day in the field with Premier Ky and was having breakfast with him the next morning, a few hours after the Honolulu conference was announced. With five other U.S. correspondents, McCulloch flew to Hawaii with the Premier, who lost $8 at poker during the 13-hour flight. TIME White House Reporter Hugh Sidey and State Department Correspondent Jess Cook arrived from Washington with...
Carl Oglesby, the president of Students for a Democratic Society, came to Harvard last week to talk about American foreign policy and the war in Vietnam. He spoke in an atmosphere of deepening concern: President Johnson had flown to Honolulu to embrace Marshal Ky, and The New York Times told us that we were in for "a long, hard, more costly and more dangerous war." In a beautifully written and tightly reasoned speech, Oglesby probed the origins of our ills. His analysis, which began by challenging American liberalism with its own promises, seemed disturbingly correct in many particulars. Above...
...quintessential Johnson style. With no advance warning, the President announced that he would fly to Hawaii for three days of talks with U.S. military commanders and leaders of South Viet Nam's government. The South Vietnamese did not even have time to draft position papers. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, asked when he first heard about it, confessed in some embarrassment: "Very recently...
...Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, retired Joint Chairman Maxwell Taylor, White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. From Saigon came a 28-member South Vietnamese entourage headed by Ky, Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, Foreign Minister Tran Van Do, Defense Minister Nguyen Huu Co, and a nine-man U.S. team led by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. Waiting for the President in Honolulu were General William C. Westmoreland, commander of all U.S. forces in Viet Nam, Pacific Commander Admiral...