Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Striking back at his critics, Johnson set out to convince a skeptical public that his Viet Nam policy was beginning to show dramatic progress. His top echelon in Saigon, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, General William Westmoreland and Pacification Chief Robert Komer, flew into Washington for a minisummit. All three brimmed with confidence-or, as Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell put it after Westmoreland had addressed Russell's Armed Services Committee behind closed doors, "cautious optimism" (see following story). Said one aide, mindful that the latest Louis Harris Poll* shows Johnson's rating on his handling...
Most of the 37-minute conference was devoted to the war and the wide spread dissent that it has spawned. The President emphasized that measurable progress is being made. "We are pleased with the results that we are getting," he said-so much so that no increase was anticipated in the currently authorized troop level of 525,000. He was pessimistic about prospects for a bombing pause, and noted that Hanoi's demands last week for a U.S. pullout as a prelude to peace talks "should answer any person in this country who has ever felt that stopping...
...exhortation, delivered in a White House office strewn with war charts and pacification graphs, succinctly summed up the Administration's guardedly optimistic view of the war as the nation's operating military and civilian chiefs returned from Viet Nam to report on its slow but promisingly tangible progress...
Today's program of the Freedom Budget Conference will include a workshop series at 9:30 a.m. and a speech at 1 p.m. by Leon Keyserling, Chairman of the Conference on "Economic Progress. Both the workshop and the speech will be held in Server Hall...
Dockery himself is pleased with his progress and feels he has a better chance of making the Jets than he did of breaking in with the Dolphins. Miami's defensive backfield is one of the best in the league...