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...than Halfway. Though the signals were confusing at best, U.S. officials took pains to explore every opening. "We are willing to meet them more than halfway," said Lyndon Johnson in a year-end press conference, "if there is any indication of movement on their part." Secretary of State Dean Rusk made a similar point in his reply to a letter from 100 student leaders who asked him to clarify U.S. policies on Viet Nam (TIME...
...stand ready-now and at any time in the future-to sit down with representatives of Hanoi, either in public or in secret, to work out arrangements for a just solution," said Rusk. He also deplored the fact that civilian casualties had resulted from U.S. raids against military targets in the North, but noted: "I would remind you that tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, wounded or kidnaped in South Viet Nam, not by accident but as a result of a deliberate policy of terrorism and intimidation by the Viet Cong...
...included the fact that 1) Jackie Kennedy sent a letter expressing hope for freedom from nuclear terror to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev after the assassination, 2) John Kennedy was planning, after being elected to a second term, to sack Dean Rusk, appoint Defense Chief Robert S. McNamara the new Secretary of State, and move Robert Kennedy, at his own request, from his post as Attorney General to Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, 3) J.F.K. was taking French lessons so that he could negotiate directly with President Charles de Gaulle, 4) Kennedy's Bible, which was used to administer...
...letter urging him to "take whatever steps you consider necessary to bring about the necessary discussions which could lead to such a cease-fire." The letter represented no change in U.S. policy but, to underscore Washington's determination to explore all avenues to peace, Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced that the U.S. would give Thant "maximum latitude" in his diplomatic probes-which presumably meant admitting the Viet Cong to any peace talks. In his annual Christmas message, Pope Paul VI stressed that "good will holds the key to peace," but added pointedly: "The difficulty is that the responsible...
This, of course, is what Dean Rusk has been saying all along: that a little "reciprocity" is required from Ho Chi Minh and his colleagues if talks are ever to get started. Ho's response last week was to send a holiday message to the American people, expressing "cordial wishes for peace and happiness," but at the same time blasting U.S. leaders for waging a "criminal...