Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics, Johnson set out to convince a skeptical public that his Viet Nam policy was beginning to show dramatic progress. His top echelon in Saigon, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, General William Westmoreland and Pacification Chief Robert Komer, flew into Washington for a minisummit. All three brimmed with confidence-or, as Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell put it after Westmoreland had addressed Russell's Armed Services Committee behind closed doors, "cautious optimism" (see following story). Said one aide, mindful that the latest Louis Harris Poll* shows Johnson's rating on his handling...
During a 5,100 mile tour of military bases from Georgia to California and back to Virginia, the President repeatedly returned to his theme-using Veteran's Day as his cue. "For these Americans," he said of the troops at Fort Benning, "Viet Nam is no academic question. It is not a topic for cocktail parties, office arguments or debate from some distant sidelines. Their lives are tied by flesh and blood to Viet Nam. Talk does not come cheap for them." Calling for unity, he predicted that "peace will come more quickly when the enemy of freedom finds...
...When he got to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, Rademaekers was met by a male guide who, seeing only an American alight from the plane, said that they must wait for a Frenchman who was also due. After two hours of warmhearted brandy tippling at the airport with Georgians, who obviously wanted to show their fondness for Americans, Rademaekers was inspired to ask the name of the overdue French tourist. "Rade-mekus," said the guide. Thus Bill Rademaekers discovered that he was waiting for himself...
...While the conferees scheduled yet another meeting for this week, the District of Columbia government, the Agency for International Development and the Office of Economic Opportunity -technically dollarless since Oct. : struggled to meet payrolls and maintain normal operations. The first casualties were five OEO community-action programs in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi that were forced to close down last week. Thirty others may soon follow...
Introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, the Senate's foremost dove, and co-sponsored by Georgia's Richard Russell, its most powerful hawk, the measure had wide backing, reflecting the upper body's atavistic yearning for a role it thinks it once had. If passed, the resolution would have been no more binding on the President than one asking Americans to be kind to dogs. It would nonetheless have been a rebuke to him, and this consideration swayed some members of the Fulbright committee last week...