Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gentle manner but with an incisive painter's eye-as his April 4, 1960 cover of Australia's Prime Minister Menzies showed-likes to capture his subject's character in a way that a photograph cannot. He feared that South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem would be a "mandarin-like subject, whose face might not reveal his feelings.'' Instead, sketching his subject in the palace drawing room in Saigon, while Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow conducted his interview, Dobell found President Diem an animated, "rather pleasant and intense person,'' perhaps lacking...
...Loose." Time after time, Johnson ignored the niceties of diplomatic language to tax his translators' skill with a homier sort of rhetoric. "There is an evil force loose in the world," he cried in Saigon while offering a toast to South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. "Its purpose is to get what we've got if it can. Another way to put it, as we would in my native hill country, is, 'The fox is loose, Mr. President. He's after the chickens and you live in the chicken house.' " Johnson grandly...
...vacation retreat in Palm Beach, President Kennedy pondered a speech he plans to make within a few weeks calling for added defense expenditures and for a deeper spirit of sacrifice among the people. Vice President Lyndon Johnson sped out to faraway Saigon to deliver to President Ngo Dinh Diem a top-secret letter containing Kennedy's offer to aid South Viet Nam with new infusions of money and advisers in its struggle against Communist subversion and guerrilla warfare (see following story...
...next morning Johnson rode to Independence Palace, accompanied by Ambassador Frederick Nolting Jr., for a meeting with President Ngo Dinh Diem. In the highceilinged, blue-carpeted salon on the second floor, Diem greeted Johnson profusely, motioned him to a brocaded chair. The business before the two men: South Viet Nam's long struggle against Communist subversion, and how the Kennedy Administration plans to help the Diem government win that struggle...
...South Viet Nam, to some $80 million a year. Kennedy has already sent General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Southeast Asia to reassure Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat and South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. This week he will dispatch Lyndon Johnson to Saigon to see "what further steps could most usefully be taken" to bolster South Viet Nam against the Communist tide...