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...fact, a group of Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, had urged Johnson more than a year ago to bring the general home to address Congress on the war. The President demurred at the time. Last March, when Associated Press President Paul Miller asked Johnson during a luncheon whether it might be possible for Westmoreland to address the news services' annual luncheon, the answer was yes-if the exigencies of the war allowed...
...luncheon was held early last week (four days before the speech to Congress) at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria -a hotel Westmoreland had last visited in January 1964, when he called on "my friend, General Douglas MacArthur," for some advice just before leaving for Saigon. MacArthur told him: "This new assignment carries with it great opportunities, but it is also fraught with hazards...
...advance warning that he would be asked to speak to a joint meeting of Congress until after he arrived in the U.S. But, in soldierly fashion, he drafted a reserve speech for any eventuality. President Johnson was in Germany when the general gave his talk at the A.P. luncheon, but everybody assumed he had read it in advance. He had not. But, especially in view of the uproar, he did have a look at the congressional speech. With his aides, Johnson watched it on television at the White House...
...talks with West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger went off smoothly, even though they took place immediately after the news had leaked out that the U.S. is planning a 12,000-man reduction in its Seventh Army. Humphrey heard no complaints about it. During a two-hour luncheon chat with Charles de Gaulle in Paris, the Minnesotan brought France's phlegmatic President to the edge of tears with an ad-libbed toast lauding his place in history...
This year, the Committee sponsored a series of luncheon meetings in Kirkland House with Cambridge citizens who are familiar with the housing situation, and decided that the time was ripe for a city-wide survey...