Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quite to the contrary, there is every reason for the group--or its individual members--to give some brief indication whether the President's personal sales pitch made sense...
...result of secret contacts between U.S. and North Vietnamese officials that began in Moscow in January 1967. By early February, when both the Johnson and Ashmore letters were written, it was obvious that Hanoi was not interested in talks, no matter how pleasant Ho had been during his brief chat with Ashmore and Baggs. North Vietnamese diplomats in Moscow went so far as to return U.S. messages unopened to underscore their lack of interest. "Mr. Ashmore yields to an understandable feeling that his own channel was the center of the stage," said Bundy. "It was not. It was a very...
...Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, son of a Negro mother and white father, who became the nation's Minister to Haiti in 1889, divorced a Negro and later married a white woman, explaining blithely that he "wanted to be fair to both races." Negro-white miscegenation, in fact, had a brief vogue after the Civil War and then declined until the post-World War II period, when gradual loosening of racial sanctions chipped further at the taboo...
...simple cover was devised. Rusk went to California early in the week, accompanied only by security men, to brief a group of businessmen in Beverly Hills on the war. He then went up to the Bay Area ostensibly to see Brother-in-Law Foisie, who had returned from his post in Bangkok for medical treatment. At the campus church, the wedding roster read Smith-Foisie rather than Smith-Rusk. Although perhaps 200 people in California and Washington knew of the wedding, the essential details were not known until hours before the wedding. One of the few hitches occurred just before...
Hans Koningsberger is an unabashed romantic who believes that intuition is a novelist's best guide. In a few spare, insightful bedroom novels (The Affair, An American Romance), his judgment could hardly be faulted. Last year, after a brief tour of Red China, Koningsberger attempted to add his own intuition to China reportage. The result, Love and Hate in China, was both unknowing and superficial...