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Romney himself has not been among the overt solicitors of delegates. But shortly after the first of the year, following his message to the Michigan legislature, he plans to set out on a political odyssey that will take him out of the state for more than 100 days...
...sure, the reaction to his odyssey was not entirely sunny-or partisan, for that matter. Among other critics. Harvard Orientalist Edwin O. Reischauer, who had served ably as Johnson's ambassador to Tokyo, described it as a risky and unnecessary venture that had accomplished little...
...Spiritual Odyssey. If Pike feels this need for renewal with a special intensity, it may well stem from his experience in wavering between faith and doubt. His widowed mother, a schoolteacher, raised him as a Roman Catholic, and during his school years in Oklahoma City and Hollywood, he recalls, "I was what you would call devout. I was with it all the way-frequently a weekday communicant, an acolyte, the whole...
...weeks the great silver-and-blue jet had chased the sun. Then, carrying Lyndon Johnson on the last leg of his Asian odyssey, Air Force One changed course. Soaring over the slender, gilded spires of Bangkok's temples, it wheeled south for a brief stopover in Kuala Lumpur, was subsequently scheduled to head northeast for Seoul, the last Asian capital on the President's itinerary. Behind lay the summit conference in Manila and Johnson's his toric visit to South Viet Nam, the first trip ever made by a U.S. President to a foreign battlefield save...
Pravda sneeringly called it a "Holly wood panorama." Indeed, President Johnson's Asian odyssey did at times seem more like a Bob Hope extrava ganza (The Road to Manila?) than a diplomatic errand of potential historic significance. The star of the show basked in all the attention he was getting from Hawaiian hula dancers and Samoan chieftains, spear-brandishing Maori warriors and confetti-throwing Aussies. His hand was puffed and bleeding from countless handshakes, his voice hoarse from scores of official and unofficial speeches, his feelings bruised by catcalling Vietniks and placards bearing such slogans as THE YELLOW ROGUE...