Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swim. Unlike Indonesia, Thailand, where Nixon stopped next, is deeply committed to the U.S. Thai troops are fighting in South Viet Nam, and Thailand has become a massive base for U.S. aircraft used in Viet Nam. Many Thais are beginning to wonder how they are going to explain all those American airbases to the North Viet namese when the time comes to make friends with the other side...
...asked for U.S. troops to help; nor would the Thais object to a reduction in the number of U.S. servicemen stationed on their soil. There are now 50,000, barely fewer than are in South Korea. "Thailand is a country that stands on its own two feet," said Nixon as he urged the Thais to make new domestic reforms. Foreign Minister Thanat Kho-man took the cue from his guest. "It is an absolute necessity for Thailand to have many different measures to oppose the danger of aggression by Asian Communist countries," he said. "The most practical method...
Bearing the President, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Creighton Abrams to South Viet Nam, Nixon's big Boeing soared directly o^eff Saigon's Independence Palace-normally completely off limits to aircraft-on its approach to Tan Son Nhut airbase. It was Nixon's first visit to Viet Nam as President (he had been there five times before). He insisted on going to Saigon rather than Cam Ranh Bay, the huge U.S. supply base that was Lyndon Johnson's touchdown spot on two trips to South Viet Nam. "Cam Ranh Bay doesn't count...
While Mrs. Nixon left to visit...
Army field hospital, Nixon choppered twelve miles north to Di An, a 1st Infantry Division base camp. The security precautions were overwhelming: all of the Vietnamese base personnel were sent home four hours before Nixon arrived, and swarms of helicopter gunships buzzed warily overhead. Said one helicopter crewman: "If a stray dog had moved, he wouldn't have had a chance." The President bantered with some of the men about home towns and ball teams; he invited a soldier from San Clemente, Calif., to come for a swim at the new Nixon summer White House there. "Tell the Secret...