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- will be discussing this matter further this morning. The matter
is urgent.
I was puzzled, Mr. Chairman, by what has been said by
the Soviet Press and Radio since our exchange of messages yesterday
morning. It does not help to charge the United States as a participant
- of those officers
who are auth~rized to discuss these problems with the press,
and that other officers should be instructed to refrain from
such discusEii
- to the press except upon the explicit
instructions of the Secretary of State •
... co~ii'lO..ENTit\L ...
,
- 3
Tuesday,
MEMORANDUM
June
6, 1967 - 11:15 p.m
FOR THE PRESIDENT
Regarding
the press reports
that our Embassy
in Cairo
has been set afire,
State Department
has just talked to the Ambassador
and he has assured
them that the Embassy
- to the contrary,
I do not wish any American official in any forum to press
for a binding agreement at this time. I wish to maintain the
position established in our talks with Prime Minister Wilson
-- namely, that the U.S. is not seeking to force its own
-
had made clear in his press
conference
this morning,
we were
committed
to certain
principles
in this situation
but did not have a program.
He said that he understood
this and; without ip.structions,
he
only say this:
It is important
that the Arabs find
- for the press. )
At 7:57 AM, LBJ, who has now been awake for nearly 4 hours, gets a call from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that the Soviet Premier, Alexi Kosygin, wants to speak to him on the hotline. LBJ tells McNamara that he and his advisors
- few hours LBJ speaks to his advisors to find out as much as he can about what happened, and to review a statement for the press. At 7:57 AM, LBJ, who has now been awake for nearly 4 hours, gets a call from Secretary of Defense Robert