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...words from Hanoi and Pnompenh was serious and empirical. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, asked if Hanoi's change in tense represented a bid to talk, replied: "I don't know yet. But I wouldn't want to characterize this statement today as either a peace feeler or as purely a propaganda move. Let's find out what this statement means as well as what it says...
...attempts to end it will make a fascinating study in well-intentioned futility. Scores of private peacemakers have visited Hanoi-Italian ex-mayors and Mexican philosophers, French diplomats and Canadian clerics, professors and politicians-and practically all have gone away with tantalizingly vague reports of a brand new peace feeler. Scores of others have worked up their own formulas for peace and reacted bitterly when nobody seemed interested in buying them. Last week two more episodes in this strange saga of diplomatic dilettantism came to light...
...said to have called the President an s.o.b. and to have told him at one point: "I don't have to sit here and take that -." When the President asked him to go before the press and say that the U.S. had never received a genuine peace feeler from Hanoi, Kennedy said that unless he saw all the pertinent communications he could not make such an announcement. "I'm telling you that you can," said Johnson. Bobby, implying that the President was not to be trusted, refused to accept that assurance...
...hostilities seemed to be escalating, despite his efforts to damp down his long-running vendetta with Bobby Kennedy. The feud, which had its beginnings in the 1960 Democratic Convention, flamed into open warfare last month when Bobby returned from Europe amidst rumors that he had received a significant peace feeler in Paris (which...
...President Johnson says he chases every peace feeler, just as his little beagle chases a squirrel [Feb. 17]. Every time one comes into view, he either chases it up a tree out of reach or catches it by the neck and shakes it dead. At last the truth about our Viet Nam policy is admitted-in the oblique language of politics, perhaps, but nonetheless what many of us have thought all along...