Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many listeners thought that they would hear some news about the peace mission. The President kept mum, but in pursuit of that mission, Vice President Hubert Humphrey last week talked with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman conferred with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon. As the U.S. stretched to its fourth week the halt on bombings of North Viet Nam, the White House also revealed that a U.S. diplomat recently handed a North Vietnamese representative a direct communication, dealing with Washington's peace proposals...
...Europe to see just "two great men-yourself and the Pope." Next day, to his mild discomfiture, Goldberg found himself seeing British Prime Minister Harold Wilson on L.B.J.'s sudden order. (In fact, he had also paid his respects to Italian President Giuseppe Saragat.) Roving U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman popped up in Poland so unexpectedly that he nearly caught U.S. Ambassador John A. Gronouski out of town. Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy was sent to Ottawa to see Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann slipped down Mexico way. To Africa went G. Mennen...
...message, the precise nature of the U.S. proposals, were kept closely guarded. De Gaulle, probably with secret delight, since it so suited his own habitual taste for melodrama, solemnly informed his Cabinet that at Johnson's request he could tell them nothing of his talks with Goldberg. Harriman saw Tito, then Nasser, and thinly tried to justify his two days in Cairo as an effort to get Egypt to look into the welfare of U.S. prisoners of war in North Viet Nam. He did indeed touch on that, but on much more as well, as proved by his odyssey...
...last week in his oval office watching for signs of peace. Beside his desk stood two news tickers. Every wire-service story that clattered in was scrutinized by the President for the slightest hint of response. Every phone call from Dean Rusk, every memo from the still-voyaging Harriman was eagerly accepted. Of the President's desire for peace there could be no doubt. Nor of the stakes, should the present all-out effort to get to the conference table fail. By any measure, Johnson had engaged the power and prestige of the U.S. to the hilt...
...Peking in splenetic fury denounced the peace offensive as a "trick," a "hoax," and "the greatest show on earth," featuring "freaks and monsters," meaning, presumably, the U.S. envoys. But America's allies and much of the nonaligned world clearly were impressed. Indian Prime Minister Shastri indicated to Harriman he would convey the American message to Russia's Kosygin-and did so as soon as he reached Tashkent for his peace talks with Ayub Khan. The Japanese, despite considerable reservations about the growing scope of the war, greeted Harriman warmly as shin-yo aru hikeshi otoko-"the trustworthy...