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...arranged by TIME since 1963 (the others went to Western Europe and Russia, Asia and Eastern Europe), this year's trip will have carried its participants on a 23,000-mile journey to ten cities in eight Asian countries before ending in the U.S. next week with a White House debriefing by President Nixon...
...they kept pace with press briefings, government receptions and panel discussions, the tour members-some of them veterans of previous TIME trips -proved willing and capable newsmen. They took notes along the way, shot rolls of black and white and color film and, above all, asked questions...
There was only one major gaffe in an otherwise flawlessly executed tour. The White House released the text of an effusive arrival statement of praise for Charles de Gaulle, which was bannered in advance by the French press. In the event, however, Nixon delivered only a watered-down edition of the speech. The overblown first version seemed to negate Nixon's carefully cultivated neutrality in intra-European affairs; by awkwardly retracting it, he ran the opposite risk of offending De Gaulle and the French. He saved the situation somewhat by praising De Gaulle warmly in a subsequent toast...
...Administration's more conspicuous posts; it would also have provided ample opportunity for political fence mending on company time, as it were. As an added lure, Humphrey was offered veto power over all Democratic appointees to the Nixon Administration in Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, White House and regulatory-agency posts. He was guaranteed a quota of Democrats to place in these jobs. As U.N. Ambassador, he would also have had Nixon's go-ahead to spend whatever time he felt necessary to rebuild the Democratic party. Finally, said Nixon, he knew that Humphrey would make plans to run against...
Times change. This week Freeman flies to Washington as Britain's 35th diplomatic representative to the U.S. Paramount to Ambassador Freeman's mission will be getting along with the revivified Richard Nixon, now the occupant of the White House...