Word: guam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike the full-dress Viet Nam conferences that preceded it, this week's meeting on remote Guam was wreathed in an aura of almost spartan austerity. Absent were Honolulu's air of Sybaritic somnolence and Manila's mood of gaudy gaiety. Guam is strictly business-and the business is to accelerate the military and political progress in Viet...
...selecting Guam as the site for his latest strategy session, Lyndon Johnson hoped to symbolize the fact that America is a Pacific nation in all senses of the word. Guam is not only the home of the B-52 bombers that daily hammer the Viet Cong; it is also the westernmost possession of the U.S. in the Pacific. The U.S. acquired the 210-sq.-mi. island after the Spanish-American War, lost it to Japan during the chaotic week following Pearl Harbor, and regained it by a bloody amphibious assault in 1944. Ringed by coral reefs, its jungles studded with...
More than Routine. Ostensibly, the Guam conference was called to keep top U.S. and South Vietnamese officials in touch on a semiannual basis (they last met in Manila in October 1966). Accompanying the President on the 18-hour, 8,600-mile trip from Washington were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, other top aides and two jetloads of reporters. In from Saigon flew U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, General William Westmoreland and South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...disclosure came as Johnson was returning home from his Vietnam strategy conference at Guam...
...conference the President will hold this week in Guam will probably be a re-run of the ones he attended in Honolulu and Manila. American efforts to help South Vietnam along the road to peace, prosperity, and democracy will be stressed. The new South Vietnamese constitution may receive the Johnson imprimatur. Rural pacification and the economic reconstruction of the countryside will be given top billing. In other words, a few touches will be added to one of the President's favorite pictures--that of a determined and benevolent U.S. trying to rescue a backward, peace-loving people from the clutches...