Word: holte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YANKEE NOMAD by David Douglas Duncan. 480 pages. Holt, Rinenart & Winston...
...hope the natural tendency for news media to feature demonstrations has not blurred the real picture of President Johnson's reception in Australia. The whole tour was quite fantastic-it even staggered Harold Holt. It was an uninhibited tribute to a man who faces an awesome task each day, best summarized by those words the President must have heard many times here: "Good on yer, mate!" His visit has established a very firm bridgehead across the Pacific...
...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, and Marcos. There was no need to lobby Australia's Harold Holt and New Zealand's Keith Holy-oake; they were already firmly in his corner...
...days down under. Along with a planeload of gifts ranging from a brace of albino kangaroos to miniature Samoan canoes, he was accorded an impressive measure of approval-occasionally in spite of himself. Too often, the President seemed somewhat heavyhanded, particularly in his ponderous praise for Prime Minister Holt and his references to American affluence. He dwelt endlessly on his own limited wartime service in New Zealand and Australia; and his martial derring-do sounded more Mittyesque with each telling, until, at Melbourne's airport, he conjured up a picture of Navy Lieut. Commander Johnson side by side with...
ROBERT FROST: THE EARLY YEARS-1874-1915 by Lawrence Thompson. 641 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...