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...Come in.' " The dining room, which Mrs. Mesta had decorated with French wall coverings of tapestry patterns, was considered perfect as it was. In the foyer are displayed some dazzling mementos of the Johnsons' recent travels, e.g., a painting of sampans, from South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem, a Gandharan head from Pakistan's President Ayub. From Texas came the Johnson collection of paintings and drawings by their favorite Texas artists-Porfirio Salinas, who specializes in scenes of Texas' hill country, and Kelly Fearing (birds). Says Lady Bird, who mounted...
...went on. Three hundred Communist Viet Cong guerrillas escaping the flooded south clashed in a bloody fight with government troops and civil guards. In the Mekong Delta region, a Communist band stormed the military outpost of Minh Duc, inflicting "heavy" losses on the defenders. Only 18 miles from President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital of Saigon, a U.S. military adviser on a training patrol with Vietnamese Rangers was wounded by a Viet Cong sniper. In the jungle north of the capital, a 500-man paratroop battalion was ambushed at the end of a three-hour forced march...
Citing such examples as Chiang Kai-Shek in China, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam, and Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Lattimore claimed that the U.S. could not possibly be successful in forcing a country to accept a form of government its people no longer wanted...
...South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem has internal political problems far greater than Taylor had supposed-and those problems are hampering effective military action against the Communist Viet Cong. The people surrounding Diem are undercutting him, creating internal strife that gets in the way of U.S. efforts to bring some order out of the situation...
...forward cabin. For the next three days and 9,000 miles, Taylor and members of his top-level team were almost continuously locked in consultation. Only a few hours after their jet touched down at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem underscored the urgency of their mission by announcing a state of national emergency, admitting that his country is engaged in a full-scale war with the Communists...