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Smith, a native of Chester, W. Va., and McClure, a Negro from Chattanooga, were members of the same Special Forces detachment. They were captured when their camp 35 miles northeast of Saigon was overrun. They testified to knowing nothing about the fate of fellow prisoners who had been captured in the same action. Yet there was a press report from Washington quoting one of the prisoners-a Special Forces sergeant now in Germany-as saying that Smith had helped him escape from a cave in which they were both imprisoned, heroically sacrificing his own chance for freedom. And the parents...
...Lyndon Johnson is unhappy at his treatment by Kennedy aides, and opposed to administration tactics on Vietnam, the civil rights bill, and the wheat sale to Russia. "He seemed to have faded astonishingly into the background and appeared almost a spectral presence at meetings in the Cabinet Room." His Chester Bowles "dissipated his authority by diffusing his energy." His Nehru is a tired, tedious old man. There are also a surprising number of critical passages about Kennedy, some of them of un-expected bluntness...
...Administration should immediately end the American buildup in the South and halt the bombing of North Viet Nam. Before marching around the White House, leaders of the demonstration-among them Old Socialist Norman Thomas, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., Pediatrician Benjamin Spock-expressed their opinions to White House Aide Chester Cooper, and seemed surprised that his response was "less than satisfactory...
While pickets marched, a delegation of leaders conferred for 90 minutes with Chester Cooper, an aide to White House advisor McGeorge Bundy. According to Gottlieb, Cooper reiterated an administration suggestion that those who desired peace write letters to North Vietnam and the Viet Cong asking them to agree to unconditional negotiations...
When he wasn't prowling for precious minerals, Copper Millionaire Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, 90, was gleaning more obscure treasures, such as a 1260 manuscript of the Rubdáiyát of Omar Khayyam, and some priceless 3rd century papyri of the New Testament. "In 51 years of collecting I've accumulated quite a few fine Oriental texts," the U.S.-born British magnate mused proudly. Then he announced that he is bequeathing the 3,000-volume accumulation, valued at $8,000,000, to Ireland, where he has had a home for 18 years, because "the Irish...