Americans Abroad: On the Road

Was anybody still home tending the shop? Among American officials abroad last week:

General Maxwell Taylor, in the Far East on a fact-finding tour before settling down to his new job as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, received South Korea's 30-jewelled Order of Service Merit for his leadership of the U.S. Eighth Army during the Korean War. Taylor later flew into Taiwan for weekend talks with Chiang Kaishek. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, in Italy to complete his 17-day, six-nation tour of the...

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