Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, a Hawaiian of Japanese descent who lives in Maryland when Congress is in session, protested that half of the population of Hawaii would be considered "impure" in the eyes of Maryland. The law, he added, would make "interesting reading in many parts of Southeast Asia where we talk about democracy...
...make way for the enormous entourage at the staid, pink stucco Royal Hawaiian Hotel, 40 disgruntled guests were hustled off to other rooms, while 140 other patrons arriving over the weekend were lodged elsewhere. Workmen swarmed over the pentagonal three-room King Kalakaua Suite-overlooking Waikiki Beach to ready it for the President. A seven-ton air conditioner, a monarchic double bed, and several cases of Tab and low-calorie Dr. Pepper were sent up. An ancient freight elevator was refurbished for the President's use with red carpeting and plywood paneling from the Philippines. Signal Corpsmen from Pacific...
...Aces." In formal sessions and shirtsleeve seminars that ranged from Camp Smith, high in the sparkling Hawaiian Hills over Pearl Harbor, to breezy hotel suites in Honolulu, the Americans and their Vietnamese counterparts spoke of crops and classrooms, highways and hospitals. The President let it be known that he expected the talk to be followed by action. After posing for pictures with Ky and Chief of State General Nguyen Van Thieu at Camp Smith, he steered them into the office of Pacific Commander Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp Jr. for a ten-minute talk. There he told them that while...
...President's private sessions with Ky and Chief of State Thieu that put muscle on the skeleton of public rhetoric in Honolulu. Sitting in the overstuffed chairs of Johnson's living room in the Hotel Royal Hawaiian, the President urged acceptance by the Vietnamese of a U.S. blueprint for curbing the nation's runaway inflation-and got it. He urged reform in tax administration, citing as an example Argentina, which had increased its income by a third through collection reforms alone. "That is what we want to do," said Ky: develop new cadres of honest young...
...aging columnist and the California editorialist hardly seemed to be talking about the same thing. But their disparate readings of the Hawaiian conference were symptomatic of the whole U.S. press. The conference, said the Detroit Free Press, was a disaster that "brought into sharp focus the schizoid personality of our foreign policy." That wasn't the conference reported by the Washington Post, which found that it "did what it obviously was intended to do from the beginning." It brought together "officials who are going to have to work together if the war is to be skillfully conducted...