Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commitment as a "tragic" mistake. Last week, during a Labor Day interview on Detroit's WKBD-TV, Commentator Lou Gordon wanted to know how Romney squared his current conviction that the U.S. should never have got involved in Asia with the comment he made after a tour of the war zone in November 1965 that "involvement was morally right and necessary...
...nine other U.S. Governors who made the 1965 Viet Nam tour with Romney, eight abruptly dismissed the brainwashing charge; the ninth. Wyoming's Clifford Hansen, was vacationing and could not be reached for comment. One of the Governors, Vermont Democrat Philip Hoff, called Romney's statement "outrageous, kind of stinking," adding: "Either he's a most naive man or he lacks judgment." Democratic National Chairman John M. Bailey declared that Romney had "insulted the integrity" of General William C. Westmoreland and former Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge because "they were responsible for the briefings he received...
...would certainly rank as one of the swiftest launderings on record. The touring Governors spent only 31 days in Viet Nam, were exposed to formal briefings for only a few hours. (Oddly enough, one of the two State Department escorts for the tour was Jonathan Moore, now Romney's foreign policy adviser.) The fact is that Romney had done no homework on Viet Nam be fore his arrival there; he conceded that he had never read a book about the country. If he was really brainwashed, suggested one correspondent who covered the tour, it could have been because...
...Gerald Ford were not an optimist-and an ambitious Republican to boot-he might have thought so too, after four days of listening to dysphoric constituents in Michigan's Fifth District. "Never in my 19 years in Congress," said Jerry Ford at the end of a pulse-taking tour last week, "have I seen people so disturbed...
...built a 500,000-member clientele in Europe and is successfully offering equal opportunities to Americans. The Mediterranee's basic gimmick for togetherness is that you always sit at a table for eight-but you can change tables for any meal. This spring Hilton Hotels launched a special tour to Puerto Rico aimed at the singles market: "What can you expect for $133 on your Hilton Swingles Week in San Juan?" A welcoming cocktail and plenty of action, "fashion shows, cinema, horse racing, free feature motion pictures and a souvenir photograph of you and your new friends...Sound like...