Word: olmstead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flown in by Air Force Globemaster, the two women beat their husbands to Washington. Captains Olmstead and McKone were forced to delay overnight in Goose Bay, Labrador, while weather cleared along their route. It was a convenient layover. It gave the two men time to outfit themselves with Air Force uniforms at the base post exchange; it gave Air Force doctors a chance to convince themselves that both men were in good mental and physical health. But there was no need to worry about what either man might say to the press. Newsmen were kept far out of reach...
...Complaint. The Air Force Constellation carrying Olmstead and McKone landed at Washington in weather that surely reminded the men of their Moscow winter. But once they walked down the steps from their plane, tossed a brisk salute to President Kennedy and located their wives, snow and the cutting wind were of no concern. Oblivious to Air Force brass and Government dignitaries turned out to do them honor, both officers kissed their wives with unabashed enthusiasm. The McKones held a long, long embrace. The first kiss left a great smear of lipstick around the flyer's mouth. Connie McKone clasped...
...reaction to the release of Olmstead and McKone was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. But a few warning voices were raised. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken charged that Khrushchev was merely "playing power politics." Cried New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits: "There is no thaw in the cold war, and this doesn't change anything on critical matters like Berlin, Laos or the Congo...
...against its becoming a debilitating or dangerous habit." Early last week Kennedy and Rusk conferred for five hours, then announced their plans for achieving U.S. international aims not through summitry but through the "quiet diplomacy" of traditional channels. It was just such quiet diplomacy that helped win freedom for Olmstead and McKone...
While Airmen Olmstead and McKone were still in their Soviet cells last week, Secretary Rusk explained to top State staffers the possibility that they would soon be released. He also expressed a worry. "The one thing I fear," he said, "is that Americans will think the Russians have really changed, that they're softening, that the worst is over." It would be just as bad if the Administration itself, however happy about effecting the release of the American airmen, were to place too much stock in Nikita Khrushchev's cold war gambit...