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Barnstorming Act. Next day McNamara and Khanh took off on a barn storming tour, crisscrossing the guerrilla-infested Mekong Delta and hitting three provincial centers in one day. Their plane was trailed by another carrying two squads of Vietnamese paratroopers, who were to be dropped to protect the V.I.P.s had they been forced down, and was escorted by a half-dozen AD6 fighters. On the ground the pair plunged into a round of grassroots politicking that left locals gasping. At Cantho, 80 miles southwest of Saigon, McNamara and Khanh ignored a blazing oil-storage tank-set afire by Viet Cong...
...Baclieu, near the South China Sea, McNamara strolled dusty streets, shaking hands and tousling children's hair, while Khanh conferred respectfully with town elders and coddled a baby. "We would make a good team," Khanh cracked to McNamara at one point. When the pair were airlifted by helicopter into Hoa Hao, a thatch-roofed village near the Cambodian border and seat of the important Buddhist sect which bears its name, McNamara and Khanh set off on foot for the shrine which once was home of the Hoa Hao sect's late founder. Standing in its silk-bedecked interior...
...biggest reception came two days later when McNamara, Lodge and Khanh carried the show to the northern city of Hue, only 55 miles from the Red North Viet Nam border. At the airport the party was almost swept off its feet by antiCommunist, placard-waving students (BOB, NO MORE BAY OF PIGS...
...during the drive into town an estimated 50,000 citizens-half the population-lined the route in pouring rain. Speaking from a platform hard by the storied Perfume River, Defense Secretary McNamara vowed continued U.S. military aid to South Viet Nam "now and forever...
Ample Opportunity. Slightly self-conscious at the start, the normally unbending McNamara soon warmed to the part of stump politician; time and again he and Khanh waved clasped hands to the crowds. Said one brasshat: "Bob loved it. In the end, you couldn't keep him away from a camera or a microphone...