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THIS week's cover story is our fourth on Viet Nam in seven weeks. The article on TIME'S Man of the Year, General William Westmoreland, was immediately followed by a cover story on President Johnson's peace offensive, and this in turn was succeeded three weeks later by the cover on Dean Rusk and the resumption of bombing raids on North Viet Nam. After a one-week interval, the current story on Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky focuses on "the other war"-the essential effort to rebuild a devastated nation. To symbolize this...
...picked the executive branch bare. Aboard Air Force One with him on the 11-hr., 4,946-mi. hop to Honolulu were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Earle Wheeler. A surprise passenger was 17-year-old Kathy Westmoreland, the general's oldest daughter and a student at Washington's National Cathedral School. En route separately were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Maxwell Taylor...
...Pictures. Arriving a day ahead of the hurriedly assembled Vietnamese delegation, Johnson grumbled a bit about the weather being unfit for swimming-though McNamara braved the surf anyway. Instead, the President held a protracted council of war with General Westmoreland, whom he had met only once before and was anxious to size up further. Johnson's approving verdict: "He's got a military mind and a social worker's heart...
...Saigon came a 28-member South Vietnamese entourage headed by Ky, Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, Foreign Minister Tran Van Do, Defense Minister Nguyen Huu Co, and a nine-man U.S. team led by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. Waiting for the President in Honolulu were General William C. Westmoreland, commander of all U.S. forces in Viet Nam, Pacific Commander Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp Jr. and Major General Richard Stilwell, who heads the U.S. military effort in Thailand...
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky refused to set aside money for the railroad in his 1966 budget, and General William C. Westmoreland received a letter coyly suggesting that the U.S. lease the railroad for $340,000 a month...