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...mile trip from Washington were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, other top aides and two jetloads of reporters. In from Saigon flew U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, General William Westmoreland and South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...devils of the South: the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies. During the four-day Tet truce, the Reds who were not fighting doubtless paid heed to the Liberation radio's directions about how to celebrate the festival: "Organize collective entertainment-including bayoneting the effigies of Americans, Thieu and Ky." But despite their own announcement of a seven-day truce (the U.S. and South Viet Nam agreed to only four days), a lot kept right on fighting. They managed, by Allied count, to violate the cease-fire some 370 times and kill 20 Americans while losing...
Ironically, Dan was en route to hear the government's reply to the assembly's latest protest against Article 20 when his car was demolished. Chief of State Thieu delivered the answer anyway: the generals would keep their veto. To do otherwise, he said, would "betray the confidence of the voters," who had elected the assembly with the understanding that the present government would keep an avuncular watch over all decisions. Urged on by a letter from Dan sent from his convalescent bed, the assembly vowed to continue to press its case against the government...
...help people, he told Park: "The place to do it is in Asia. Here's where most of the people are." Johnson delivered the same message to other Asian leaders-Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn, South Viet Nam's Premier Ky and President Nguyen Van Thieu, and Marcos. There was no need to lobby Australia's Harold Holt and New Zealand's Keith Holy-oake; they were already firmly in his corner...
...special Jeep fitted with a hand rail, Johnson and Westmoreland reviewed the troops, then proceeded to a flat-bed truck draped with blue-and-white bunting and fitted out as a speakers' stand. On the stand were Ky, Thieu and Lodge, who had arrived earlier. Before he began to speak, Johnson handed out three Distinguished Service Crosses, a Navy Cross (the nation's second highest decorations, after the Medal of Honor) and a Silver Star to five...