Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Help, help! First [Oct. 14] you print an extraordinary review of my book...
...When he left Washington, the President was thoroughly aware that his trip was something of a long-distance whistle-stop tour, an exercise in diplomacy that could help burnish his tarnished image. Johnson has manipulated most of the levers of presidential power with a skill matched by few of his predecessors, and in the process has achieved a legislative record second to none. But he has been unable to budge the lever that in the end controls all of the others: public opinion...
...broad objectives in mind. One was to show Hanoi that, where Viet Nam was concerned, it had to cope not only with "this Dictator Johnson with the long nose," as the President himself put it, but with half a dozen Asian nations as well. The other was to help cultivate the fragile shoots of regional cooperation that are beginning to poke through Asia's stony political soil, in which enmity has always flourished far more readily than amity...
...hour, he lauded Park for steering Korea from military to civilian government, hastened to assure him that the U.S. was not seeking peace out of weakness but out of a desire to attack "the underlying roots of the problem-human misery." Noting that he had entered public life to help people, he told Park: "The place to do it is in Asia. Here's where most of the people are." Johnson delivered the same message to other Asian leaders-Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn, South Viet Nam's Premier Ky and President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...Asia's growing sense of regional pride. "It's like what Baltimore got from winning the World Series," he said at one point. While that must have baffled any Asian leaders who heard it, they were clearly gratified by his pledge that the U.S. was committed to help the area not as a dominant power but as a partner within a new comity of nations...