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Next day the President issued a blistering statement: "Outrages like this will only reinforce the determination of the American people and Government to continue and to strengthen their assistance and support for the people and government of Viet Nam." Johnson, Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy decided not to launch any massive attack against North Viet Nam in specific retaliation for the bombing. After a long session with the President, Ambassador Taylor said: "We are simply going to stay on our program of doing what we did before. We've just...
...talked more often of "citizens' participation" than of the Republican Party. But no longer. He takes seriously his assignment as member of the postelection G.O.P. Coordinating Committee, and is seeking ways to bring dissidents of the right and left into a strong and resolute center. "We need to strengthen the Republican Party," he told a press conference in Detroit. "We need some coordinating thinking...
...take advantage of the Institute, to meet the residents and offer them their own ideas. But the program is not designed with the idea of enticing students to go into politics, since any such plan would be merely a drop in the bucket. Contact with residents and visitors would strengthen the political aspirations of those who aspire already. But Neustadt might wonder whether any of the programs he now has in mind would have induced John F. Kenedy '40, varsity swimmer and club man, to come over to the Institute...
...gravity of the matter as he rose to introduce the government's motion. Pressing logic on the glum Deputies who sat before him, he insisted that formal ties with West Germany would not only amount to a significant defeat for Israel's Arab enemies, but also would strengthen Israel economically and speed the day when it could win associate membership in the Common Market. "This is a struggle between heart and head," declared Eshkol. "Let us say that it is wise-hearted to go ahead with...
...said these basic problems strengthen his belief in foreign aid. "Aid does not buy friends. It helps realize the conditions that will strengthen governments and fend off subversion. The U. S. response is triggered by our traditions, idealism, and a desire to protect our own security...