Word: johnson
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Ironically, perhaps, it is just those regions of the country, the South, the Midwest, and the Rocky Mountain states, which have given Johnson his strongest support on Vietnam that stand to lose the most. Ten years from now the Montana rancher (who's voting for Wallace because he wants Hanoi H-bombed) will watch his daughter die in child-birth as he is flying her, in his little Cessna, to the hospital in Butte, several hundred miles away. In his grief, he will rail because there was no doctor closer, but he'll probably never make the connection...
...President Johnson's standards, the bombing halt is probably a genuine victory. Twice now, the President has satisfied his critics and paid a military price smaller than they thought necessary. Before March, 1968 dissenters argued for a halt of all bombing in the North as the only way of bringing the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table. Johnson halted it half-way and the North Vietnamese came to Paris. As the talks stalemated this summer, critics called for an unconditional halt of the bombing to revitalized the peace effort. President Johnson held out for a reciprocal gesture from the North...
President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam...
...Johnson stated that the cessation was not only of bombing, but of all acts involving the use of force, including troop activity, in the North. Unarmed reconnaissance is still permitted, however, he said...
...Johnson asserted that, "What we now expect--what we have a right to expect--are prompt, productive, serious, and intensive negotiations in an atmosphere that is conducive to progress." He added that Hanoi has already indicated an intention to talk more seriously. The discussions will resume Nov. 6 with the N.L.F. also participating...