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...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...
...remarkable that scarcely a word in either the declaration of Honolulu or in the accompanying communique suggests any expansion...
...read the Honolulu declaration as a refusal by the President to put limits on our war aims and on our military commitments in Viet...
...Drummond, that they are impressing 15-year-olds and girls into service; the B-52 raids are mauling them badly and their losses are high. Another answer came from South Viet Nam, where Columnist Joseph Alsop explained that as he saw it, "the problem that has been examined at Honolulu is peculiarly clear. Provided that the President is willing to wage war in earnest, all sorts of signs indicate that this is a war that can be won-perhaps a lot sooner than most people imagine...
...reasoned summation was offered by Columnist Max Lerner. "Many will view the whole Honolulu venture as a tricky Johnsonian gimmick to give the outward semblance of activity when there is no substance of progress in the war," he wrote. "But it would be serious to underestimate the President or believe that his moves have been wholly histrionic. There is a logic to his latest move, the logic of adding political warfare as a third phase of the American effort, to fill out the triangle whose other two sides are formed by the military operations and the diplomatic operations...