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The pose had a certain drama about it. But the noisy dispute over a site where American and North Vietnamese negotiators could meet for preliminary talks recalled what the late John Foster Dulles said in 1954 about negotiating with Asian Communists: "Progress is always slow and seldom spectacular."
At these sessions he liked to cite John Kennedy's original direction to him: "Determine what forces are required and procure and support them as economically as possible." The first half of this mandate meant more spending. Even before the Viet Nam war reached major proportions, McNamara's...
The U.S. got its first glimpse last week of a Russian jetliner that figures to become a regular visitor. Into Washington's Dulles International Airport-and later into airports at Philadelphia and New York, flew an Ilyushin-62 fan jet laden with caviar, vodka and souvenirs for American reporters...
For the White House simply refuses to offer any reasonable explanation for the steps it has taken to increase U.S. involvement in the war and tempt the Communist Chinese to intervene openly on the side of Hanoi. The latest escalation of the bombing, in fact, suggests that the U.S. wants...
What the book shows most clearly and painfully is the decline of Bidault, betrayed by the courage of his own futile convictions. And at least one of his statements is certain to set swivel chairs spinning in Washington. According to Bidault, during the siege of Dienbienphu in 1954, France asked...