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Fatigued LBJ Plans Secret Trip After Holt Rites
President Johnson earned Viet Nam policy endorsements from allied leaders before attending Harold Holt’s funeral rites in Canberra. He then planned a Shangri-la journey that could reach Viet Nam, Thailand or the Vatican, amid fatigue from a long Washington flight and late-night talks with Australian, New Zealand, Korean and Philippine leaders.
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Canberra
UPS
Johnson
Harold Holt
Vietnam
Thailand
Vatican City
Washington
Australia
U.S
Holt
John McEwen
Lord Casey
New Zealand
Keith Holyoake
Park Chung-hee
Nguyen van Thieu
Philippines
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Melbourne
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Winston Churchill
Shangri-la
White House
Saigon
Paul VI
South Viet
Nam
Thieu
Communist National Liberation Front
NLF
UPI
Ellsworth Bunker
George Christian
Harold Wilson
Robert Menzies