#lb johnson

Fictionalised Versions of real political leaders appeared across multiple episodes of Legends, whose apperance did you enjoy most?

President Johnson Issues the Honolulu Communiqué, February 1966. Source: Past Daily website

After criticism of the US’ military policy in Vietnam from the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Johnson held an unexpected conference in Honolulu with the South Vietnamese leadership in order to agree a new strategic approach. In a joint communiqué, the Declaration of Honolulu, issued at the end of the meeting on 8th February 1966, Johnson committed the USA to continued military support of the RVN’s war against Communism and to fund a series of economic and social infrastructure programmes to improve material conditions for the peasantry and so increase loyalty to the regime. In return, Ky and his colleagues agreed to work to restore full democracy and freedom of speech to South Vietnam and to redouble their own military efforts.

This Time, The Last Sentence

Followers of this blog know that I often introduce books that I am reading by using the title, Opening Paragraphs.

Today, as Christmas gifts, I received three books from my daughters and below is the last sentence of the first chapter of the one of those books.

“Our wounds we wear like temporary garments until they are forgotten, but our stories, we don them forever”.  

That is a powerful…