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...fences and buildings, even drowned him in effigy at a ferry terminal in San Pedro. In the Senate, Democrats Frank Lausche of Ohio and Tom Dodd of Connecticut blasted the visit, and Barry Goldwater, referring to the White House boycott of South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu (see following story), complained: "We are dining with our enemy and slapping our friends in the face...
...Patterson Jr., as he strode past a clutch of curious newsmen in the lobby of Manhattan's Barclay Hotel one morning last week. "I'm just here to see that the lady has sufficient police protection." The lady-South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu-coolly assured Patterson that her protection was just fine. Besides, she added, "God is in my corner...
Poison Ivy. Venturing onto the college circuit, Mme. Nhu found little but poison Ivy along the way. At Harvard, she entered an auditorium through the back door to dodge some 500 churlish student pickets who were parading outside and carrying signs with such labored slogans as NHU DEAL is NHU DIEM GOOD. They pounded on the doors, splattered the building with eggs and rattled the windows while she spoke. Inside, things were not much better. When Mme. Nhu, sheathed in brocade and silk and trailing a mink stole, complained that "Americans in Viet Nam do not live like us ... austerely...
...Princeton, she complained that "they showed bad manners-very bad manners-at Harvard." But Old Nassau was not much more polite. Some 250 pickets, including six Buddhist monks from a monastery in Freewood Acres, N.J., refugees from Tibet and Russia, turned up to razz her. Protested Mme. Nhu: "You're not helping us by hissing or booing us. Tell us precisely what's wrong with...
Before anyone could say "Buddhist," however, Mme. Nhu whisked off to Washington, spent much of her time there talking about precisely what's wrong with the U.S.* "I have not met your Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge," she told an audience of some 800 which jammed the Women's National Press Club. "But from a distance he seems more mysterious than an Asian." The Kennedy Administration was full of liberals, she said, and while "liberals aren't red yet, they're pink." As for the U.S. decision to withhold some economic aid from the Diem regime...