Word: makalapa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Going." McNamara hurried back to his office and set the plans in motion. The Pentagon phoned Sharp. In turn, Sharp called the Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, stationed at nearby Makalapa Naval Base, told him: "We're going to clo it." Orders crackled through the Pacific as units of the Seventh Fleet were alerted. The carrier Constellation moved out of Hong Kong-about 500 miles from the Tonkin bases-with instructions to join the Ticonderoga as quickly as possible...
...shimmering Keehi Lagoon, left their "classified" folders on the tables while they enjoyed a quick dip. Lieut. General William Westmoreland, the newly designated U.S. military chief in Saigon, gave a virtuoso display on one water ski. During off-hours, Rusk and McNamara relaxed at Felt's flower-decked Makalapa Guest House, while Lodge could be seen sipping coffee in splendid isolation at Waikiki Beach's Royal Hawaiian Hotel...
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