Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson has not demanded public acceptance by Hanoi to his conditions. But Thieu feels that he needs some sort of open acknowledgment to protect his own political flanks. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker put in seven strenuous sessions, some lasting more than two hours, with Thieu in the course of ten days. At first, Thieu was amenable to the U.S. terms. After meeting with his National Security Council, he flatly refused to consent to N.L.F. representation in Paris. For the moment, that was that. Thieu treads a delicate line. On the one hand are his hard-line rivals, ex-Premier Nguyen...
Flurry of Meetings. Apart from Thieu, Johnson has yet another problem: if he does not get public concessions from Hanoi in response to a bombing halt, he risks the accusation that he is endangering the lives of U.S. servicemen solely to give Hubert Humphrey a political advantage...
Sensitive to the bruised, bitter feelings of his crusaders, McCarthy is caught in a delicate irony partly of his own making. The very cause for McCarthy's brave defiance of Lyndon Johnson last winter--America's idiotic substitution of military hardware for perceptive diplomacy abroad--is now, in a new sense, the most respectable reason for backing Johnson's head cheerleader...
...time supporter of Sen. Robert Kennedy '48, Eckstein joined the Humphrey camp in mid-July. He has worked under Walter Heller, economic advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and coordinator of Humphrey's economic research groups...
...problem stems back to 1965, Eckstein said, when the economic stability achieved under President Johnson fell prey to the financial burdens of the Vietnam war. The result was the fourth period of inflation since World...