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While De Gaulle was taking Gaullism to the Mexicans and President Johnson was putting the LBJ brand on U.S. Latin American policy (see THE NATION), one of the most intensive examinations of hemisphere problems in years went on behind closed doors in Washington last week. All 17 U.S. ambassadors and 19 aid-mission officials were summoned from their posts south of the border for three days of shirtsleeve discussions that ranged from economic and political problems of the Alliance for Progress to rising Latin American nationalism. On the third anniversary of the Alliance, diplomats accredited to the Organization of American...
Although the Johnson Administration should not be judged on three months in office, it is impossible not to draw inferences from what the President has done so far about his interests and abilities. In Latin American affairs, LBJ has given de Gaulle a chance to break the cold war alignment and to form his own independent bloc. Whether or not de Gaulle succeeds, whether or not de Gaulle's position has merit, the chance seems not only from the General's diplomatic daring. It also seems due to Johnson's ineptitude...
...unprecedented move, Pope Paul VI flies to Johnson City, Texas, to visit President Johnson at the LBJ ranch. To his evident enjoyment the entire Johnson family welcomes him to a barbecue with a chorus of "Deep in the Heart of Texas" sung in Latin. In New York, Richard Nixon holds a press conference to announce his selection of a staff of advisers "who will help me formulate plans to avoid becoming a candidate for public office...
Only when he treated Konrad Adenauer to a barbecue at the LBJ Ranch or invited a camel driver from Pakistan to come to Washington did Johnson emerge from behind the wall of obscurity that surrounds the vice-President. The brilliant administrator, the manager of Senators has spent his time touring Scandinavia and mending Democratic fences in Texas. The few jobs assigned to him seemed to be sinecures created to give the vice-President something...
...million in 1961. Lewis, a onetime Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (1953-55), has tightened operations and tugged GD back into the black. On TFX he got some help from that charming, arm-twisting Texan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Pentagon insiders now refer to the TFX as the LBJ...