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  • "-'~· I .. , . ·.. ,. ;J:QEJ :Sl:C'.ECE '£ MEMORANOO M FOR July 26, 1965 THE PRESIDENT I understand that you will be dining thle evening with Sir Norman and Lady Brooke& and Ambaeaador and Mrs. Waller of Australia. You may wlah to refer to two key
  • . They reg a rd t h e i r s u c c e s s i n d e t e r r in g us th u s f a r a s a m ajor a ch iev em en t and a m easure o f th e l i m i t s o f our w i l l t o s e e i t th ro u g h . At home we s h a l l soon have r i s i n g c a s u a lt y f ig u r e s
  • to their homes. A growing number, too, seem to take advantage of combat (when control is least effective) to defect by surrender. The Chieu Hoi program seems to be more widely known than it was many months ago, but RAND is convinced that it "falls far short
  • # North Vietnamese b o a t s a g a i n a t t a c k e d o u r d e s t r o y e r s on August 4, 1964. On August 5 , U.S. p l a n e s r e t a l i a t e d i n a l i m i t e d f a s h i o n a g a i n s t n a v a l b a s e s which were t h e home p o r t s o f b
  • FOR PROPAGANDA P U R P O S E S r J HOME AND ABROAD, AS U I T H I N C I D E N T S L a s t A u a u s r , im f a c T j c e r t a i n r e s t r a i n t i s b e i n g e m p lo y e d , t h i s COULD w E a N t h a t R E G IM E I S E X P E C T I N G EVXN G R E A T E R C
  • . g . , provi de . r es e t tl e m en t when p r o p e r l y t aken) ; encourage VC t o " d e f e c t " home t o t h e i r v i l l a g e s . ^ , ■ L. P o l i t i c a l a ction. The f o l l o w i n g p o l i t i c a l meaningful n e g o t i a t i o n
  • i n t e r d i c t i o n , i n - 24 e l u d i n g armed r e c o n n a i s s a n c e a g a i n s t jank t r a f f i c o v e r 25 s e a LOCs. 26 T h is i n i t i a l program sh o u ld b r i n g home t o t h e Authority DC*- ‘f; = ■1^ -q io p S
  • FOR THE PRESIDENT N 0 D I S THE BOMBING OF THE EMBASSY ON MARCH 3 3 WAS TfiE DOMINATING EVENT' OF THE UEEKo THE LOCAL PR ESS, AND MANY VIETNAMESE PRIVATELYj EXPRESSED INDIGNATION AND OUTRAGE AT T H IS ACT OF TERRORISM. ' WHILE THE BOMBING EROUGHT HOME ONCE AGAIN
  • B E DOME IH TH A ILA K ’D . . WE R E A LLY FACED FAR G REATER R IS K S I^^ EUROPE A':)D lU KOREA, UE FACED FAR GREATER C R IT IC IS w FROM OUR FRIE^ :D S BOTH AT HOME AJ:D ABROAD, AS A STU D EN T FOR A QUARTER CE:JTURY OF TH E L IM IT E D A PPLIC
  • and f o r what s p e c ific U n ite d S ta te s o r Vietnamese ends are we going to sta y there? The question w i l l be asked in c re a s in g ly a t home no le s s than abroad. And i t i s the c ru c ia l q u e stio n because the answer to i t sho uld