Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could you tell us a little about why we're in Vietnam?" I asked. Matter-of-factly, he told little rolypoly Sgt. Brown to take me to Lieut. Johnson. Brown told me he'd kick my teeth in if I kept agitating. He was very paranoid. I smiled condescendingly in the best Harvard tradition, secure in the knowledge that they can't touch you. Lieut. Johnson asked me what I was there for, and I told him--"Nothing." He promptly sent me off to rejoin my group in Test Room...
...office Lieut. Johnson and I talked at length...
Completely Irrevocable. Many of Johnson's critics could not bring themselves to believe that he was sincere. He might have "something up his sleeve," said Pediatrician Benjamin Spock. "I hope he means it," said retired Lieut. General James Gavin. "I'm afraid he doesn't, and that he would accept a fair draft." Many sophisticated Europeans suspected that Johnson hoped to duplicate the feat of Egypt's Nasser, who "quit" after the disastrous war with Israel in 1967 but was restored to power by popular demand. "Is this a false exit," wondered Paris' Le Monde, designed "to stop the rapid...
...Lieut. Gregory Sharp, an American adviser with the Viet Nam 21st Ranger Battalion, told me that his men had come across about 25 new graves in a cemetery five miles east of Hué on March 14. From half a dozen of the graves the heads were sticking up out of the sandy soil and, according to Sharp, "there wasn't much left of them-buzzards and dogs, I suppose. Some had been shot in the head and some hadn't. They had been buried alive, I think. There were sort of scratches in the sand...
...Sabers. At a Medal of Honor ceremony for Marine Corps Major Robert J. Modrzejewski and 2nd Lieut. John J. McGinty III,* Johnson recalled Roosevelt's reminder five months after Pearl Harbor: "We have had no illusions about the fact that this is a tough job-and a long one." He added: "Responsibility never comes easy. Neither does freedom come free." As for the "open," "undisguised" North Vietnamese aggression, said Johnson, reverting to Abe, "the early pretense of attempting to fool some of the people some of the time had the cloak pulled from around it and even they have...