Secretary of Defense because the American people are going to have it out with the Administration at the. ballot pox." a This was. ‘the. background to Johnson's sudden trip to Hawaii. He called an emergency press conference during the televised Foreign Relations Committee hearing. This sensational development compelled CBS to-cut into its coverage of the inquiry’, bringing Johnson before the television audience with his announcemént about flying to Hawaii. It remains to be seen how successful this diversionary move was in counteracting the effect of the material brought out in the first day of the committee! Ss public hearing..
Besides his itmedi ate. objective. of setting up an administration show in Hawaii to counteract the. ‘public.inquiry into his war policy now going on in the. Senate, Johnson,had another . obvious | aim. He wished. to. give South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky a public. ~ pat on the back to show. that he-is. the puppet ‘personally favored ‘by the president of the United States.
Evidently those in . charge of the war of conquest believe this isa good move in trying to stabilize some semblance of government in Saigon, Recently there have beén persistent rumors of another impending coup d'etat there.
Ky, a self- avowed admirer of Adolf Hitler, ‘will no doubt find that Johnson measures up to his ideals in many ways and that the conference will prove mutually profitable and agreeable.
Very likely the conference will be utilized to announce decisions. already made concerning. further measures to be. undertaken in Vietnam. References. have appeared in the press.to more intensive bombing, the spreading out of American troops on:a broader basis, ~ the building up of a south Vietnamese constabulary, the setting up of new villages -- in short, the standard "pacification" and "reorganization" measures that “have accompanied wars of colonial conquest undertaken by other imperialist powers.