Word: johnsons
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Surpassing the Quota. JOBS stands for Job Opportunites in the Business Sector, and is the project of the National Alliance of Businessmen. The Alliance was called together by President Johnson early this year for the express purpose of finding 100,000 jobs for the hard-core unemployed by the end of June 1969, and 400,000 more by 1971, as well as summer jobs for youth. Under the titular leadership of Henry Ford II and the hard-driving personal direction of a Ford vice president...
...Lyndon Johnson would like nothing better than to get the negotiations resumed quickly in the hope of achieving major progress toward a settlement before his term in the White House runs out. However, he also wants to avoid any semblance of bullying Thieu to the conference table. Thieu's task is equally complicated. Standing up to the U.S. won him such enthusiastic support from Saigon's politicians and generals that he felt compelled at one point to promise: "I will try to keep flexing my muscle as long as I can." At the same time, he was prudently...
Wanting to Lead. When Johnson first proclaimed the bombing halt and expanded negotiations more than two weeks ago, Thieu balked at any South Vietnamese participation in a conference in which the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front would be permitted to speak for itself, rather than through Hanoi's delegates. But after several days, he announced that he would let his representatives come, provided South Viet Nam took over from the U.S. the leadership of the allied delegation and dealt directly with the North Vietnamese, not the N.L.F., at the negotiating table...
Thieu's proposal got short shrift in Washington. What was more, Thieu received scant support from President-elect Richard Nixon, who the South Vietnamese had hoped would be much tougher in dealings with Hanoi than Lyndon Johnson. They were disappointed when Nixon declared that until the inauguration Johnson could speak for the incoming administration...
...Asia. Initially, his price for releasing the eleven was high. But since the halt of American bombing of North Viet Nam, and the consequent feeling that peace is a few steps nearer, Sihanouk now says that the men will go free once he has received a note from Lyndon Johnson pledging that U.S. forces in Viet Nam will "do their best" to avoid violations of Cambodian territory. As a head of state, the Prince refuses to deal with anyone but L.B.J.; a recent Dean Rusk note containing the pledge was brushed aside as "insufficient...