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Along with the lull in the fighting came a frantic flurry of diplomatic activity. At the United Nations, in London, Cairo and Belgrade, statesmen scurried about in quest of the magic formula to end the war. Among the few whose efforts deserved notice was veteran U.S. Ambassador-at-Large W. Averell Harriman. Returning to Washington from a "vacation" in the Soviet Union, Harriman advised the President that Russia's leaders "sincerely wanted peace," but could not be counted on to take any initiatives to settle the Viet Nam war. "I don't know whether they have any influence...
...Latin American statesmen, Romulo Betancourt, former president of Venezuela, and Galo Plaza Lasso, former president of Ecuador, also received honorary LL.D...
While a bewildering array of soldiers and statesmen still strove to sort things out in the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE), the two foremost foreign policy spokesmen in the U.S.-President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk-paused to assess the situation...
...greatest triumph--would become his permanent resting place. His spirit would pass from that earthly shell through the veins of the monetary system to all corners of the earth. His very being would animate each franc, each dollar, each ruble, rupee, and drachma. And, long after his death, statesmen would journey to inspect the great French general, the leader of men who proved far more valuable dead than alive...
...always, he was ready to go to the negotiating table-but not as an exercise in futility, and not if the only prospect was to be the abandonment of Viet Nam by the U.S. Time and again, he told White House visitors, he had been urged by foreign statesmen to negotiate. Time and again he had expressed his willingness. Time and again he had asked those statesmen to go out and find some responsible party for him to negotiate with. So far, no luck...