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Folder, "February 12, 1968 - 1:45 p.m. Senior Foreign Policy Advisors meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

requests in the past. Now he finds that his campain plan has been pre-empted by enemy action. Secretary Rusk: Can it only be done by additional U.S. forces? press them to brigade U.S. troops with Vietnamese? Can't we General Wheeler: Before I answer

Folder, "February 15, 1968 - 6:06 p.m. Cyrus Vance meeting on his return from Korea - and other foreign advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

, the mission was a success. This was in evidence even with the press at the air port when I left. In t he long run, however, the picture is very dangerous. The President: Before we get any further, what did we do to provoke the anger and hostility? Mr. Vance

Folder, "March 26, 1968 - 10:30 a.m. Meeting with Gen. Wheeler, JCS and Gen. Creighton Abrams," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

McCarthy and Senator Kennedy and the left wing has informers in the departments. The Times and the Post are all against us. Most of the press is against us. How can we get this job done? We need more money in an election year, more taxes in an election year

Folder, "August 20, 1968 National Security Council," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

Rusk: I would not think so. Secretary Clifford: What reaction did we get from Averill Harriman on your Press Conference? Secretary Rusk: statement. '' The President: Norway thing? Secretary Rusk: publicized . ,, I hope w _e would not undermine

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam, 1/29/1966, Volume 3, Tab 38," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

people and the D.R.V..., l' • ga.ses, and toxic chemicals to Government. r wish to ex-A b urn down villages and mas press our deep gratitude to sacre 'the civilian population the people and Government ot 1 in vast areas ot South Viet

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] African Problems, 7/13/1967, Volume 4, Tab 54," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

political lesson from the intense Con gressional opposition to the decision to send in the C-1 30 1 s ? Unde r Secretary Katzenbach shou ld background the press. The domestic racial issue k i cked off the Congressional debate. Senator Javits should be seen

Folder, "[Briefing Papers for National Security Council Meeting, October 15, 1966]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

on the seca:rfl 3.fte.rnOon. These meetings ~ ~,. •. '! ·.·• .. .... .. j g. Press briefings and leak Rroblem. .. We~ only tentative· ~~ this stage _; ·' ------- ------ -.-.-,,.-.-.....·-~- ~--------------..--------~ would be most damaging any

Folder, "[September 12, 1967 - 1:25 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

directed George Christian and myself to prepare my notes on the report of the Vietnam election observers and have this distributed to the Members of the Cabinet. Rusk pointed out that the Senators who attended the King Constantine lunch leaked to the press

Folder, "[November 18, 1967 - 4:30 p.m. Meeting with Congressional Leadership on Devaluation of the Pound]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

measures to improv e the balanc e -of-payments position. R ead concluding portion of sta tement he made at Novemb er 16 press conference announcing program s to strengthen U.S. balance of payments. Stressed that enac tme nt of President's tax increase

Folder, "May 6, 1968 - 1:20 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

to stop bombing." They'll have a hard line on the bombing, and they'll stay with it. If pressed, they'll define "other acts of war" to include any and every violation of the border. -· . - • Authonty By L:(.,.o/ DECLASSIFIED l I L .i g :'I - S I_

Folder, "January 26, 1968 - 7:29 p.m. Pueblo backgrounder with Hugh Sidey and Jack Sutherland," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

Sidey: It was definitely in Did the commanders in the field do all they could do? The President: All we know is what we have in their messages. read the press conference of the commander. I Three or four things could be true. It could start

Folder, "February 11, 1968 - 4:30 p.m. Senior Foreign Policy Advisors - Rusk, McNamara, Wheeler, Clifford, Taylor," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

to press and public optnton in the interest oi our common purposes. ·- --- ·- •_ _...............!..•_ . _ • . :·--·· - ·· - ·• • ·---...:.....; :.•. :: .: ~----·--·-- .: . •...... ··.. _ ·-..:..:.-...:,,.,_.·.. s---z...·- · f.-t f'""rr

Folder, "March 4, 1968 - 5:33 p.m. Meeting with Senior Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

a peaceful settlement soon. We do not. The North Vietnamese are pressing against Laos and Thailand. The Chinese are leaning against Burma and Cambodia. During the day we had two additional comebacks on two probes which we made. The Shah of Iran saw Hanoi 1 s

Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 23 November 1963 - 27 December 1963," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)

- Discussion on Vietnam, Robert Kennedy, Eisenhower, Alliance for Progress, role of ror. 42. 9 December 1963 - Briefing. General revi·ew. Press, McNamara, Vietnam. I 43. 13 December 1963 - Introduced DDCI, Peer de Silva., reviewed checklist. Discussed

Folder, "October 29, 1968 - 2:30 a.m. Meeting with the President's Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

as we are going to press the offensive in the South and in Laos, and so long as we are prepared to resume the bombing if they violate the DMZ or attack the main cities, 11 he is ready to go along. •:After all,'' he said, ''the problem is not to stop

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Soviet Military Capabilities, 12/5/1963, Volume 1, Tab 2," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

and it is our task to see that it does not happen . NOTE: There is attached a copy of the transcript of Press Secretary Salinger 1s press briefing which was author ized by the President following the meeting. 'i!OP S EE R 8 'f GODJ; N OllD J\:'f T J'LC WM E

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Cyprus, 7/7/1964, Volume 2, Tab 8," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

some ground with the Greeks duri.ng that vi~it. Mr. Bundy felt less opti.lnistic , notir1g Greek peevishness over the President' s latest letter . T he President recalled that Papandreou had pressed for a US formulc.. when he was here. Mr . B all

Folder, "March 26, 1968 - 1:15 p.m. Foreign Policy Advisors Luncheon - regulars plus added group - Vietnam," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

in the United States press. There were setbacks during Tet -- mostly psychological and two military. The most setback was here in the United States, which was one of their objectives. The President: When General Westnloreland was last here, we did not give him

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] FY 1965 Underground Nuclear Test Program, 6/16/1964, Volume 2, Tab 7," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

Securi;: y Af:c..i:.· ;:; J::ick V.:;.lc:1::i, Special _.:,.ssistant to the President \'/alter Jenki ns, Special Assistant to the Presiden t: G...-or ~ e Ret::dy, Press Se cre t ;:i.ry to the ?:resident _..lajo ::- General Chester V . Cliiton, Militu.1-y

Folder, "October 23, 1967 - 5:36 p.m. Democratic Leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

is often a reliable spokesman for North Vietnam, last Friday published an article from Hanoi which some of you may have seen in the press, in which he reports the views of Premier Pham Van Dong and other high officials. He describes Hanoi as "in no mood

Folder, "December 5, 1967 - 1:18 p.m. VP, McNamara, Rusk, Vance, Helms, Rostow, Christian, T. Johnson," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Government had rejected the Greek-Turkish agreement. With hopes for peace again fading, we returned to Nicosia and pressed Makarios to concur, starkly outlining the likely consequences of continuing intransigence. This resulted finally in his .written

Folder, "January 24, 1968 - 7:50 p.m. Pueblo 3 - McNamara, Rusk, Rostow, Clifford, Christian, Johnson," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

Room ' ': ' ' .. :1 ( I ~ • ~ The President opened the meeting by reading a memorandum from Bob Fleming on the network press coverage at 6:30 p. m. (Attach ment A). . ,.. Secretary Rusk: We met early tonight. We have received

Folder, "January 29, 1968 - 1:40 p.m. Pueblo 9 - Senior Advisors - McNamara, Rusk, Katzenbach, Lodge, Helms, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

specific details confidential, although the general intentions would of course become known. Finally, General Eisenhower said that we should do everything possible to press for action on the diplomatic front and in the U. N. Security Council, and should

Folder, "February 9, 1968 - 11:02 a.m. Joint Chiefs of Staff," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

: I saw where Senator Kennedy pointed out that the South Vietnamese voted not to call up 18 year olds. General Wheeler: I met last night with this unnamed group chaired by Nick Katzenbach and Paul Nitze. We are pressing for the South Vietnamese

Folder, "February 18, 1968 - 8 a.m. President's breakfast with boys on the Aircraft Carrier Constellation," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

it and as you go along the harder it gets to climb the hill; you will have the neurotics who will drop out. You read about it every day in our country because we have a free press. They have them too. The young have to defend the country for us. It was left

Folder, "May 21, 1968 - 1:15 p.m. Tuesday lunch with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

. There is no particular pressure on us at the present time. I know of no pressure to extend bombing by Congress, by public, by press. Life Editors think the President is on the right track. The next general approach - the targets are not worth it. They have not been using

Folder, "[September 9, 1964 - 11:00 a.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

not be sufficient. He had held this view for many months, but it had been reinforced by recent events in the field. The President pressed General Taylor as to the reasons for his current unreadiness to recommend larger action. Under this questioning General Taylor

Folder, "[December 18, 1965 - 12:35 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Bombing Pause," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

no man :ion of an. a: t::::..c~c on tile ~Jo.rt h , the press will be houndi~s us . Pre 3i ·1.e .1 t: Y o~ ,i '.) e::-. .1y t~1in3 ye~ . ~ e t tsr ~e ~ o~a hava a J OU: l~t d ~~ es o: jac~ . t ~ lki n~ ! ' ill to io . t e _l :!le w'12. t

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] U. S. Policy toward Brazil and other general topics, 4/2/1964, Volume 1, Tab 6," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

RAEDEMACKER . AIR B ~ IGADlER fRANCISCO CORREIA DE MELO ALS O , CASTELLO BRANCO REMAINS AS ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF. FIRST . ARM Y UNDER GENERAL OCTACILIO TERRA URURAHY . PRESS REPORTS MILITARY PAY' BILL. SENT TO CHAMBER BUDGET COMMITTEE LAST NIGHTT, NOT PASSED

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam / POL, 6/17/1966, Volume 3, Tab 41," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

l ki n g to the press or even to staff members who m i ght talk to the p r ess. The h ighest security must be n1a intaine d. Secret ar y Rusk: vVe have an ele111entary obligation to suppo rt our combat troops when t hey are c arry ing out a n assi

Folder, "[Briefing Papers for] September 25, 1968 National Security Council Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

have not succeeded and in fact have been undercut by Rhodesian and South African moves which make a peaceful solution of these problems all but impossible in the foreseeable future. . The Africans can be expected to press to have the General Assembly

Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

to the press. He said Vietnam elections were now our greatest hurdle out there. He noted that in our country, we'd had our revolution in 1776 and had no government established till 1789. He said we went to Honolulu last year to help them begin, so that actually

Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 4 January 1964 - 28 April 1965," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)

came before an NSC meeting with 30 or 40 people present, it would immediately become known to tho p reao that the Government was divided between "hawks and doves" and ~h ero would he great press speculation and many other dieadvantagea. I than stated

Folder, "October 14, 1968 - President's Meeting with Joint Chiefs on Vietnam," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

for a Vie tnam peac e settl e m e nt. The effect of this concession on the Viet Cong will be very great. ~p 5ECRE'I' - SENSITIVE -12 +GP SECRET - SENSITIVE (Secretary Rusk, continued) Following a gap of two or three days, we can press in Paris

Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 3 April 1964 - 20 May 1964," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Conte/Long and Symington Amendments to Foreign Assistance Act, 2/7/1968, Volume 5, Tab 63," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

should not get into the question of why we do not escort such ships . A ship on the high seas is the least provocative way of gathering intelligence. We should not cripple our intelligence effort. The press misconstrued what was said on the Sunday TV

Folder, "September 25, 1968 - 12:17 p.m. National Security Council," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

by Rhodesian and South African moves which make a peaceful solution of these problems all but impossible in the foreseeable future. The Africans can be expected to press to have the General Assembly call for adoption by the Security Council of punitive economic

Folder, "October 30, 1968 - 10:10 a.m. Foreign Policy Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

. (Troop Contributing Countires) and to deal with Paris. If Thieu won't make complaints through Bunker rather than through other people and the press, I would be inclined to go ahead. We can't follow Thieu's speech. Our own people will want to know

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Assistance to Indonesia, 1/7/1964, Volume 1, Tab 3," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

what the President was going to do about aid to Indonesia. In addition, there would be press inquiries. At stake were the Administration's relations with Congress. In response to the President is question. Mr. Bundy said he would recommend signing

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Secretary McNamara's Mission to Vietnam; OAS Action on Venezuelan Arms Cache, 3/5/1964, Volume 1, Tab 4," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

of Central Intelligence Director McDermott, Office of Emergency Planning Director Rowan~ U. S. Information Age:icy Deputy Under Secretary of State Alexis Johnson McGeorge Bundy, Special As3istant to the President Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary