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...from Rangoon to Mandalay...
...always thought this country could run itself domestically . . . You need a President for foreign policy," Nixon told White in 1967. He quotes an unnamed friend of L.B.J.'s recalling the President's comments on his own peacemaking efforts: "I got earphones in Moscow and Manila, earphones in Rangoon, and earphones in Hanoi, and all I hear on them is 'F you, Lyndon Johnson.' " The historical value of other of his recollections is dubious. "Over the thirteen years that I have been following Humphrey," he writes, "I have never known any candidate who turns more to cheese...
ADMINISTRATION officials have also changed their positions back and forth. September 1964 U Thant got Hanoi to agree to unconditional negotiations in Rangoon, Burma. Thant informed Stevenson, ambassador to the U.N., of the agreement. Stevenson in turn communicated the news to Washington. Four months later Stevenson told U Thant that the United States could not accept the proposal. When Stevenson finally leaked the news of the rejection the following June, Rusk justified the administration's action by contending Hanoi had had no intention of entering "serious" negotiations at the time, citing his sensitive "antennae" as the source of his impression...
...Thuy's work as an agitprop handyman that brought him into Ho's orbit. In 1950 Thuy was sent abroad, and he is a widely traveled rarity among North Vietnamese officials. Fluent in French and Chinese, he has touted Hanoi's line in Vienna, Stockholm and Rangoon, as well as Peking, Moscow and other Communist capitals, where he has generally appeared in the guise of a journalistic commissar. The softspoken, stumpy Thuy, whose name means spring water, emulates stay-at-home apparatchiki in one respect: his private life is shadowed in secrecy. Thuy is known to have...
...Johnson suggested Geneva. Without rejecting the Swiss city outright, Hanoi came back with Pnompenh. Johnson, in turn, pointed out that Cambodia's capital has serious communications shortcomings and that neither the U.S. nor South Viet Nam has an embassy there. Instead, he proposed four other Asian sites (Vientiane, Rangoon, Djakarta and New Delhi...