Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days, officials were still trying to find something comforting in the recent Communist Tet offensive despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared that the Saigon regime "if anything has been strengthened by the attack," and on TV the U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, Ellsworth Bunker, in effect agreed. Despite some qualifications made by both men, such statements sounded absurd (see THE WORLD...
...happy to report that the Communists failed to capture the American embassy in Saigon. Armed with the knowledge gained from the Pueblo maneuver, our officials managed to blow up the embassy before it could fall into enemy hands. The leg injuries sustained by Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker are not believed to be serious...
...have asked the Soviet Union to put pressure on the Hanoi government for the release of Ambassador Bunker, as well as Mrs. Charles Percy. Until such time as their release is effected, I can only reiterate the stand taken by Mr. Rusk: 'My strong advice to Hanoi is to cool it. There have been enough of these incidents...
...want the world to know we stand foursquare behind our Secretary of State in this matter. But there are no easy solutions, and therefore we do not think Sen. Wallace Bennett's advice to 'send an armored division roaring into Saigon, throw a tow rope around Ambassador Bunker and Mrs. Percy, and haul them out of there' is particularly helpful...
There was a lot of stew in the days just after the attack. General Westmoreland got on the Armed Forces Vietnam network to tell us all that this was the greatest defeat that the enemy had ever suffered. Ambassador Bunker got on to tell us that American forces and their gallant allies were having their greatest victory. They even had a brief dub-in from President Johnson in Washington telling us that this was a great defeat for the Viet Cong and a victory for America and South Vietnam. And that this was an act of last desperation...