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...Harvard undergraduate reporter asked Romney if a Vietnam pullout would endanger all Southeast Asia. He lectured the student for asking questions which had also been asked in off-the-record sessions. After the taped interview was over, the finger jabbed once again and Romney railed, "You took advantage of me; I don't like that one bit." Later, he indicated that the whole line of questioning bothered him. Another student, after challenging Romney on a statement at a cocktail party was taken aback by the governor's sharp reply. "The Romney finger" is well known among his Michigan opponents...
...final session, Johnson persuaded the Koreans and the Vietnamese that Point 29 would not be misread as a hedge for a U.S. pullout at any price. "Nobody can accuse us of a soft attitude," said the President. "If anyone doubts the basis of our commitment, they will find that we have more troops in Viet Nam than there are words in the Webster's New Dictionary...
...House and State Department experts listed a number of possibilities ranging in outlook from high optimism to bone-deep pessimism. The least acceptable contingency was the prospect of a neutralist regime in Saigon that would either demand outright U.S. withdrawal or impose such humiliating restrictions as to make a pullout unavoidable...
...they achieved no other goal, the Senate hearings confirmed President Johnson's belief that nothing short of a premature pullout from Viet Nam will pacify the pacifiers. The hard-core critics of his foreign policy, concluded a White House aide, "are insatiable. They will not accept the legal argument, the political argument, the moral argument or the military argument. They want out." And that, Lyndon Johnson maintains, is the one argument he will not buy at any price. Last week, more determinedly than ever, he said it again...
Today both these major achievements are in trouble, partly because of inevitable changes in the world, but largely because of the willfulness of Charles de Gaulle. The operations of the Common Market are deadlocked by a French boycott; NATO faces a complete French pullout. For more than a year, the U.S. has allowed the situation to drift, on the theory that Europe was basically sound and not much was needed to be done. Now Washington is once again turning its attention to Europe and to the ties-uniquely close but uniquely complex-of kinship, common ideals and hard self-interest...