Word: outtalking
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Whatever the North Vietnamese are waiting for, Harriman and his team seem determined to outsit them and outtalk them. Despite the first week's barren outcome, few anticipate that either side is about to break off the negotiations. "There is something adhesive about talks like this," said a U.S. diplomat. "Once they start, they tend to go on." The danger is that they could go on-and on-until patience erodes and pressures mount in support of a wider...
...older," said former President Harry S. Truman, turning 79. But a luncheon in Kansas City brought out more than 200 friends, and the grand old man from Independence beamed broadly as the crowd sang Happy Birthday. Highlighting the festivities. President Kennedy phoned to say: "You can outwalk Bobby and outtalk Hubert." It was almost true. Under doctor's orders to cut down his matutinal strolls, Harry still puts in a solid week's work at the Truman Library, attends to piles of correspondence, soon plans to appear in 26 half-hour TV shows delineating his White House years...
...general agreement, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson can outtalk any other ten Texans with one tongue tied behind his cheek-and last week, deep in the heart of Africa, he applied his skill on an international scale. Accompanied by his wife Lady Bird, Johnson turned up in Senegal to represent the U.S. at the first anniversary of the nation's independence. When he left a few days later, some tens of thousands of delighted Senegalese seemed ready to go all the way with L.B.J...
...your Chinese Communist friends are undermining the peace every day, creating disorder and danger wherever you move? How can you talk of colonialism when you are surrounded by your puppet dictators . . . ?" Then he got down to the matter at hand: "This is no time to say that we can outtalk or outshout Mr. Khrushchev. I want to outdo him-outproduce him." Later, in Nashville, Tenn., Kennedy emphasized a point: "I want to make clear that nothing I am going to say is going to give Mr. Khrushchev the slightest encouragement. He is encouraged enough...
...once he was back in his own state, Louisiana's mad Governor erupted once more. Scarcely had he signed in at New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital than he began demanding his release again. For three hours his doctors tried to outtalk him, but Earl insisted that he wanted only to drive to his farm-or maybe a friend's farm-where he could rest. He was, after all, still the Governor of Louisiana; nobody could stop him, he cried. But wife Blanche...