Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back at Chu Lai for a pre-departure press conference, Humphrey told reporters: "I almost hate to go back. I haven't heard a single gripe from one American-but when I get back to Washington, I'm sure that I will be able to compensate...
Technical Aid. Humphrey had two other important stops to make before he got back to Gripesville. The first was Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, where Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said that Malaysia is considering a revival of its rural-assistance program to South Viet Nam, which lapsed with the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Malaysia already trains South Vietnamese in police work and American troops in jungle techniques. Warned by the Tunku that Communist China will certainly capture all of Southeast Asia if the war is lost, Humphrey repeated in essence what he had said...
From Malaysia, Humphrey flew on to Djakarta; he was the first top-ranking American to visit the Indonesian capital since "President for Life" Sukarno was eased from power 16 months ago. Fearful that American visibility would only aid the Reds in their comeback attempts, the U.S. has maintained a "low profile" position in Indonesia since the anti-Communist resurgence against Sukarno began in October...
...However, Humphrey was greeted by thousands of Indonesians waving tiny paper American flags-a far cry from the raging mobs that burned and looted the U.S. and British embassies in years past. At a dinner in Humphrey's honor. Acting President Suharto frankly appealed for U.S. economic assistance and warned that "if the economy cannot be improved in a relatively short time" the Indonesian Communist Party might well score a comeback. Clearly, the Indonesian economy would be the key topic during the Vice President's four-day stay-as it was at a conference of world businessmen...
...huge orange pennants, striped' in the red of the South Vietnamese flag, fluttered in the breeze. Some 25,000 troops lined the streets leading to the square in front of the Assembly, and in the reviewing stands waited the representatives of 22 nations, headed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey. As a 21-gun salute from a howitzer boomed across the capital, Thieu and Ky, clad in business suits, arrived in twin Mercedes 300s to be sworn...