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...rely on guns alone. Still again, the answer is no. From our Honolulu meeting, from the clear pledge which joins us with our allies in Saigon, there has emerged a common dedication to the peaceful progress of the people of Viet Nam. The pledge of Honolulu will be kept, and the pledge of Baltimore stands open-to help the men of the North when they have the wisdom to be ready...
...arduous the task of "building a better school and a better nation," said Johnson, Americans have "little reason to be discouraged. Others face tasks so much more difficult than ours." He had in mind, of course, the South Vietnamese officials with whom he had conferred the week before in Honolulu...
Infiltrated Pigs? His mission was to promulgate the two-war theme enunciated in the Declaration of Honolulu. "Yes, indeed," he declared in South Viet Nam, "two wars can be won-the war to defeat the aggressor and the war to defeat the ancient and persistent enemies, disease, poverty, ignorance and despair. The people of South Viet Nam will make their choice...
Only after the meeting did Studebaker identify its potential new boss. He is George Wesley Murphy, 61, a onetime used-car salesman who, from his Honolulu base, has amassed a fortune estimated at some $30 million by parlaying a string of auto dealerships into a diversified empire ranging from an Australian motorcar firm to a 23% interest in San Francisco's Union Sugar...
...Hobby. One of seven sons of a Saskatchewan General Motors dealer, Murphy-like most of his brothers-became an auto salesman while still in his teens. During the Depression he went broke selling Chevrolets in the farm town of Manteca, Calif., but bounced back as an Oldsmobile dealer in Honolulu. He made his first financial killing by stockpiling trucks just before the start of World War II, reselling them at a hefty profit. In 1963, he paid $3,800,000 to buy 90% control of the then-floundering Honolulu Iron Works Co., which makes sugar mills. By chopping off deadwood...