In one, titled “Washington Still Rejects Any Vietnam Negotiations,” reporter Max Frankel examined the growing pressure for a diplomatic solution and the continued White House intransigence on the issue. “In Congress, in the diplomatic corps, in the mail reaching Washington, there is more and more talk in favor of ‘negotiations’ over Vietnam,” Frankel wrote. “But the Administration continued today to shun the word or any other suggestion that it might wish to bargain for peace.”
