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...emphasis is very much on the war which is at hand. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew to Saigon for his eleventh visit-and his first in seven months-"to gain firsthand information on the situation." Wheeler went out of his way to blunt the growing criticism of the way that General William C. Westmore land, the U.S. commander, is conducting the war, and to slap down speculation that he might soon be relieved of his command. "A corollary purpose" of the tour, said Wheeler, "is to convey to General Westmoreland the great confidence placed...
...PRESIDENCY Memories of Uncle Lyndon Working from a lode of salvaged notes and firsthand memoranda, Evelyn Lincoln assembled a 1965 memoir, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, that gave readers a faithful slavey's-eye view of the boss she loved and served as personal secretary. Her second installment, Kennedy & Johnson, about to be published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, wastes little love on J.F.K.'s succes sor. Her book's opening description of L.B.J., in Florida at their first meeting after the 1960 election, speaks of him as "Heavy. Heavy footsteps. Heavy body. Heavy, slow-moving...
...privacy, Geneen, Boonisar and aides carried on negotiations in a suite of Boston's non-Sheraton Somerset Hotel. Negotiations over, Geneen got a firsthand idea of how booming was his new business; at 1 a.m., with the suite's beds spoken for, not a hotel room was to be had in Boston. "To hell with it," snapped the new innkeeper, who then flew back to his New York apartment aboard an ITT Gulfstream...
...months ago, while still studying in the U.S., I agreed with many Americans that America should stop the war and withdraw her troops from Viet Nam. Now, after coming back to Hong Kong and seeing at firsthand the Communist threat, which once nearly ruined this peaceful and free British colony, I changed my viewpoint completely. Most Americans never realize what other countries are going through under the influence of Communism. The war may take time, but after it is over, millions of Southeast Asians will appreciate the Americans for what they have done -while many Americans will be sitting...
Before the holocaust of Detroit, Michigan's Governor George Romney had worked out a timetable of international travels designed, like Richard Nixon's global peripatetics, to make him a Republican presidential candidate equipped by firsthand knowledge to deal with foreign policy. This month he was to tour Europe's capitals; he planned to visit South Viet Nam in November for his second personal look...