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- with religious images from Southeas,t Asian currency.
Superimposed over it all: a portrait of Ho Chi Minh.
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Research Grants A warded to Thirteen Scholars
Considering the applications for grants-in-aid are Tina Houston, Library Supervisory Archivist; Bruce
- , including North Vietnam, and he
was convinced that ir was a bargain Ho
Chi Minh couldn't turn down.
rn the next room he handed me a pad
and hi. own pen. ·'Now, I want to rewrite
that preamble so it can be read in the pub
lic square in Johnson City,'' he
- in Busby's hotel
room. Disappointed, the columnist
asked the reason for the seclusion.
When Busby replied that he was on
stakeout waiting for Ho Chi Minh's
reply to a secret peace feeler, she
demanded, "Isn't this a terrible
breach of national security? Isn't
- one job
for me, and one job only, f'rom here on out.
horn now on. ever time we are meeting.
whether it be in the abin t R om or with
the Secretary or D fcnsc. or with whom
ever, hO\· vcr private. I want you to p ~e
the be. t possible argument that can
- him-especially
giv n the pro-pect
of atomic terrori ·m.
Finally, Schwartz asked. how will
future hi. torians evaluate Rostow's role
in Vietnam? LBJ was unwilling to take
Rostow's advice lo expand the war and
cul the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a strategy
- , however, the French collid
ed with the Viet Minh, a strong
nationalist movement that challenged
their rule. Thus began the First
Indochina War. On November 1-3.
2002, seventeen historians gathered
at the LBJ Library to examine the lat
est scholarship
