Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full 28 hours before a tight-lipped McNamara appeared before newsmen to read a 146-word communiqué and refused to entertain any questions. Gist of his statement: two unnamed U.S. destroyers "were menaced" by four "unidentified vessels" and opened fire, after which the "vessels" disappeared...
...When the actual Johnson-Goldwater meeting took place, it was icily formal. No photographs were taken, and when the session ended a scant 16 minutes after it started, White House Press Secretary George Reedy's communiqué was exquisitely balanced. "The President met with Senator Goldwater," it said, "and reviewed the steps he has taken to avoid the incitement of racial tensions. Senator Goldwater expressed his position, which was that racial tension should be avoided. Both agreed on this position...
...clash between Hanoi's Sinophiles and old-guard pro-Muscovites reached a showdown at a stormy session of the Lao Dong Central Committee last December. The Peking partisans evidently were in control of the meeting-Ho did not even speak. They put out a communiqué denouncing the "rightist ideologies that exist among a number of our cadres," meaning such pro-Moscow Ho Chi Minh followers as Premier Pham Van Dong. During Ho's 23 years at the head of Vietnamese Communism, he has weathered many storms and is such a father figure that he may never...
...somewhat less public scrap, Rowan took exception to a sentence in a joint communiqué that Johnson was to propose to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Warned Rowan: "It's condescending and Nehru won't like it." Johnson forcefully disagreed. But sure enough, Nehru threw the paper on the floor when he read the offending line. Later, Johnson said to Rowan: "You were right. Just keep getting up when I knock you down." Then in obvious reference to the fact that Rowan is a Negro, Johnson added: "But I guess I needn't tell you that...
...Tran Van Don. Like Minh, Don has been close to the Americans-so close that he went to a dinner for Admiral Felt the night before the coup, calmly saw Felt off at the airport shortly before the shooting started. "We have no political ambitions," declared the generals' communiqué. "We act not for fame or benefit, but to save our beloved fatherland...