Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT WHITE HOPE, a sprawling semidocumentary, by Howard Sackler traces the career of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. The play is a drama of contrition spiked by the adrenaline of newspaper headlines, but James Earl Jones, as the brooding boxer, commands the stage like an avenging giant...
...with barely concealed jubilation, Paris with electric excitement. For the first time since the Viet Nam peace talks began 51 months ago, there seemed to be genuine evidence of a breakthrough toward peace. Rumors of the initiative roiled through capitals from Canberra to London. The word was that Lyndon Johnson, in the last three months of his presidency, was on the. verge of ordering a complete bombing halt over North Viet Nam. At week's end, Johnson had still made no overt move, and U.S. planes continued to range over the northern panhandle. Nonetheless, it seemed possible that...
...works. There has been an extraordinary flurry of diplomatic activity in recent weeks, ranging from Peking and Paris to the Pedernales. Three weeks ago, Cyrus Vance, the No. 2 U.S. negotiator in the slow-paced Paris peace talks, flew home to confer with the President. Early last week Johnson cut short a stay at the L.B.J. ranch to return to Washington, and White House Adviser Walt Rostow canceled plans for a weekend away from the capital...
Despite the flurry of diplomatic activity, the President found time to attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in Manhattan, where he shared the dais with Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke. Johnson was in good humor. Mimicking Nixon's farewell speech after he lost the election for Governor of California, he declared that "this is the last time you will be able to kick Lyndon Johnson around." For all his seeming relaxation, however, the President's attention was focused on any signs from Hanoi that might signal a desire for peace...
...week's end, the U.S. maintained that it had received no reply from Hanoi to Johnson's latest suggestions-though there were reports that an answer had already arrived and was under study. A break could come at any time, but just when depended principally on two men: North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh and Lyndon Johnson. On the other hand, if the present initiative should prove fruitless, Johnson could continue through the end of his term without uttering another word about a bombing halt. Still, he must find it tantalizing to think...