Word: guam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the Guam parley last week turned out precisely as the Administration had billed it-a routine review of the Viet Nam war-a sense of anticlimax swept the U.S. Considering that the President had assembled a score of top aides and hauled them 8,700 miles to a remote rock in the western Pacific, spending more time in the air (36 hours) than on the ground (31 hours), it was only natural that the nation should expect dramatic results. There were none. Johnson simply reaffirmed his determination to stand fast in Viet Nam until Hanoi is ready to talk...
...briefing U.S. correspondents on the meeting, White House aides pointedly emphasized the word routine. Yet the President had a lot more than rou tine matters on his mind-as he proved before he left for Guam. In a speech to the Tennessee state legislature at Nashville, Johnson revealed a top-to-bottom shakeup of the Saigon embassy staff that reached from Lodge-who had long been anxious to end his second stint in Viet Nam-to Information Chief Barry ("Zorro") Zorthian, whose psywar techniques have doubled the number of Viet Cong defectors coming across the lines. As replacements, Johnson named...
...South Viet Nam over the past two years. "As I am talking to you here," he said, "a freely elected constituent assembly in Saigon is wrestling with the last details of a new constitution." Appropriately, Ky planned to take a copy of the new constitution with him to Guam for the President's perusal (see THE WORLD...
Before leaving for Guam last week, Lyndon Johnson was preoccupied with another war. In a 9,500-word message to Congress, he outlined programs totaling $25.6 billion to aid the nation's poor-an increase of $3.6 billion-and specifically earmarked $2 billion for Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, combat headquarters for the war on poverty. Predictably, though the figure represents a 25% increase over OEO's current budget, it was nowhere near enough to satisfy everybody. Speaking for the U.S. Conference of Mayors Detroit's Jerome Cavanagh promptly complained that at least...
...Premier Nguyen Cao Ky took off for Guam this week for a meeting with President Johnson, he carried in his briefcase a document-its ink hardly dry-that could affect both war and peace in South Viet Nam as much as any other item on the Guam agenda. The document was South Viet Nam's new constitution, which an elected Constituent Assembly of 117 Vietnamese citizens completed and approved ten days ahead of schedule so that Ky could show it to Lyndon Johnson. Ky and his fellow generals in the ruling military directory will now have one month...