Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idealism and self-interest based on the acknowledgment that the military war cannot be won in a vacuum, that it will only be successful to the extent that it helps liberate the Vietnamese from poverty, ignorance and exploitation. As the President said in welcoming Saigon's leaders to Honolulu: "We are here to talk especially of the works of peace. We will leave here determined not only to achieve victory over aggression, but also to win victory over hunger, disease and despair...
Elephant & Mouse. It is no secret that the President puts Senator J. William Fulbright in this category, and true to form, the Arkansas Democrat attacked the Honolulu meeting as "a further obstacle to a negotiated settlement" because it so firmly committed Washington to support of the present regime in Saigon. Fulbright's views were echoed by several anti-Administration witnesses before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee-most notably George F. Kennan, former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and a leading exponent of the "containment" policy that was designed to defend Europe against Soviet expansionism in the late 1940s...
...drowsy Friday morning in Honolulu when the news clattered in over wire-service tickers. Within 32 hours, President Johnson and a small army of "peace warriors" would descend on the island for a whirlwind summit conference with the leaders of South Viet Nam. Hordes of communications, security and transportation experts were already on the way, to be followed by nearly half the U.S. Cabinet, 125 other American and Vietnamese officials, two dozen Secret Service men, 354 newsmen. For Hawaiians, it was to prove the most harrowing ordeal since Maunaloa last blew...
When he left Washington, the President practically picked the executive branch bare. Aboard Air Force One with him on the 11-hr., 4,946-mi. hop to Honolulu were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Earle Wheeler. A surprise passenger was 17-year-old Kathy Westmoreland, the general's oldest daughter and a student at Washington's National Cathedral School. En route separately were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Maxwell Taylor...
...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...