Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even No. 2," he kept reminding aides during the seven-nation meeting on Viet Nam. "We are No. 7." In public appearances, he squeezed no arms, slapped no backs. During a picture-taking session before the Philippine House of Representatives, he carefully stood a couple of steps below his Asian colleagues so as not to tower over them...
...patient advance spadework in Asian capitals, U.S. diplomats managed to resolve the differences and preclude embarrassments. In Saigon, for example, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge urged Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to beware of impetuous remarks that might wreck the conference-such as repeating his proposal to invade North Viet Nam. "Lodge told Ky that ad libs were fine-so long as you'd worked on them day and night for six months before tossing them out," said one American...
...desire to attack "the underlying roots of the problem-human misery." Noting that he had entered public life to help people, he told Park: "The place to do it is in Asia. Here's where most of the people are." Johnson delivered the same message to other Asian leaders-Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn, South Viet Nam's Premier Ky and President Nguyen Van Thieu, and Marcos. There was no need to lobby Australia's Harold Holt and New Zealand's Keith Holy-oake; they were already firmly in his corner...
...what happens in Viet Nam than in the whole of Asia. Johnson's constant refrain was Asia's growing sense of regional pride. "It's like what Baltimore got from winning the World Series," he said at one point. While that must have baffled any Asian leaders who heard it, they were clearly gratified by his pledge that the U.S. was committed to help the area not as a dominant power but as a partner within a new comity of nations...
Waltzing Imelda. While America's influence was discreetly evident in Manila, the conference was conspicuously an Asian affair-as February's Honolulu meeting was not. The allies' Filipino hosts handled the summit meeting with extraordinary efficiency. The arrangements were Imelda Marcos' province, and she took charge of everything, from refurbishing the Manila Hotel with treasures wheedled from