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Lyndon Johnson reiterated his own determination to do so the night before the Guam conference broke up. Hosting a shrimp-creole dinner at Nimitz House, he told the story of a Vietnamese emissary who was dispatched to Washington in 1873 to seek help from President Grant against the invading French. Grant said no, and the agent sadly headed home. En route, he stopped in Yokohama to visit the U.S. consul, an old friend, and to exchange poems, as was the custom in those parts and times. The final line of the Vietnamese emissary's poem read: "Spiritual companion...
...tickets. In Washington, a favorite variant is the campaign cocktail party. Says one lobbyist ruefully: "I get invited to about two every month. They are so well organized that after the first drink, they pass blank checks around. It usually costs me $100 for one drink and a cold shrimp on a toothpick...
...bound together by our Constitution and our language. Yet, in many ways, we're a group of separate kingdoms. Our land grows palm trees and pine, redwoods and beach plum, vanishing Key deer and whooping cranes. Our people say 'you all' and 'youse'; catch shrimp and sell stocks; live in lean-tos, skyscrapers and stucco bungalows. There's never been such a fiercely diverse land...
...London. Twice (when opposition families were in power) he had led spectacular, quixotic plots to overthrow the government, the last time in 1959 when, together with Dame Margot and an "army" of seven men, he landed on the beaches near Panama City from a fleet consisting of two shrimp boats...
...President, and U.S. officials concluded from what was said that Moscow would like to see a settlement there, but will not lift a finger toward that end until Hanoi gives the go-ahead. Leaving the White House by the back door, Gromyko headed for the State Department for a shrimp and lamb dinner with Rusk. The talk centered on prospects for a nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. "Gromyko made it very clear," said one official, "that there will be no agreement, now or in the future, by which Germany could move into a nuclear force." Even so, the fact that Gromyko...