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Folder, "[July 1967 - May 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

by the fact that so many of the people who are rioting aren't prepared for jobs. He said that they were unable to get jobs because they weren't permitted to join labor unions. The President said that there would be a deficit of between $25 and $30 billion

Folder, "January 30, 1968 - 8:30 a.m. Pueblo 10 - Congressional Leadership Breakfast," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

will stretch the time. Thanks for giving us the whole picture. I am .· not sure the American people are as aware of the security pacts the North Koreans have with the Soviet Union and with the Chinese as I am. Congressman Boggs: I agree with what

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Problems ahead in Europe, 5/3/1967, Volume 4, Tab 51," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

on this problem wi ll be presented in a paper for circulation to the Council. ...... The President: On our recent Europ ean trip we spent a great deal of time on this problem and we wi ll continue to do so. However , it is doubtful that acceptable solutions

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam, 2/10/1965, Volume 3, Tab 30," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

of the enlisted men's barracks at Qui Nbon. As of that time , o ne U.S. soldier was known to be dead, 20 injured, and 20 missing. Presumably, the missing soldie rs are bur ied under the rubble of the billet. Mr. McGeorge Bundy summarized the discussion

Folder, "[September 13, 1967 - 12:32 p.m. National Security Council Meeting]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

'.Vier. - 3 The President then summarized saying that actually there are only three for us. Goldberg said he wanted to take exception to a statement made by Secretary Rusk that there will be a future time to go to the United Nations

Folder, "[September 6, 1967 - 11:09 a.m. Meeting with Vietnam Election Observers]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

should go to Vietnam. Lucey also paid tribute to the "fine type of military men." He said they were just magnificent and it is just terrible that these men are called murderers. "This isn't the time to lie about the United States." - 3 Rabbi P. Rudin

Folder, "[July 18, 1966 - Meeting with Bi-Partisan Leaders of House and Senate]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

to the guidelines • . Four out of five of the union negotiators wanted a strike and there was nothing we could do to stop it. General Electric faces a big demand in negotiations in September. I have talked with leading businessmen such as Mr. Murphy of Campbell Soup

Folder, "July 24, 1968 - 1:30 p.m. Tuesday lunch with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

·. Since the early 1950' s th'e United States has carried a larger share .of ~he ·· .' . defense burden of the North Atlantic area tar a longer period ot time than was anticipated. Moreover, todo.y this couriti-y has great responsibilities

Folder, "[July 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

to Mr. Meyer.) Mr. Meyer: In Latin America there is a great interest in University teaching. Are you going to teach? The President: Not as a full-time faculty member. I don't want to be tied to a class every morning at 8:00-a. m. I will make periodic

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Near/East Region, 2/21/1968, Volume 5, Tab 64," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

. Ambassador Thompson had talked with Kosygin, and S ecretary Rusk had raised the matter with Ambassador Dobrynin the previous Thursday. The President said that he had 11played for time 11 with the Israelis . He had hoped before Secretary McNamara left to have

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Cutback in Nuclear Production; Secretary Rusk's Report on Vietnam; Asst. Secretary Bundy's Report on Laos, 4/22/1964, Volume 1, Tab 9," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

in the New York Times which was quite misleading in that it l eft the im.prcssion that the Viet C ong had achieved a major victory over the Vietnamese. Viet Cong loss es in this battle were sizeable . Although the week has been bloody, it has been pretty

Folder, "October 23, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Rusk, McNamara, Helms, Rostow, Christian, Wheeler," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

and to exercise restraint in the provision of arms to the countries in the Near Eastern area. SERVlCESEf --TOP SEGRE!f EYES ONLY [2 of 9] . . Cf10'.P SEC !\:ET EYES ONLY - 3 Unlike the Soviet Union, the United States has for many years followed a policy

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

to a non-mandatory apportion..~ent for peacekeeping costs above the one-third limit governing. our mandatory assessment; (b) keeping adequate • . air trans port units available at all times for U"N airlift; and (c) proposing a U.S. program to train units

Folder, "[December 21, 1967 - Meeting with Australian Cabinet]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

and that country were being ta.ken to people's hearts. Moreover, he took !lrm position• on the great is&uee of hls time. Be in no doubt whatsoever: the new governr,"lent wlll carry forward the pollclea that Harold Hold had lnltlated. through to the end

Folder, "[December 23, 1967 - 8:50 p.m. Meeting with Pope Paul]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

to say but when Podgorny was here he told me that Russia would never abandon the cause of North 5. Vietnam. I tried to convince him that this was the proper time to collaborate with the U.S. in peace moves but I received negative results. Is there some

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Major Issues of the 22nd UN General Assembly, 9/13/1967, Volume 4, Tab 57," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

the time he is in New York he will see 70 or 80 Foreign Ministers. This opportunity provides a useful review of bilate r a l problems in addition to useful discussions of UN i ssues . 2 . As to African representatives , they are better than they used

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

all air, naval and artillery bombardment, and all other acts involving the use of force against North Vietnam, as of 7 p. m. Ea.stern Standard Time, October 29th. We have agreed that a meeting dealing with the substantive issues will be held in Paris

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam; Jordan Arms, 2/1/1965, Volume 3, Tab 26," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

and at that time we would decide to go ahead. If we agreed to give the sup e rsonics, deliveries coul d be scheduled for 19 68 1970. The planes would thus be under our control for a period. The Jordanians would be dependent on us for replacements and spares

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

Walter Ridder, Ridder Newspapers James Cary, Copley Newspapers Bernard Gwertzman, Washington star Richard stoiUey, I!fe Wayne Kelly, Atlanta Journal Cauley asked the President to discuss his philosophical approach to his office at this time in his service

Folder, "January 31, 1968 - 8:40 a.m. Pueblo 13 - Breakfast with Congressional Leaders & Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

than his information. We have spent a great deal of time on this situation. I have received reports from 90 ambassadors. I asked Clark Clifford, George Ball, Henry Cabot Lodge, and General Taylor to c,ome in Sunday and go over this. We are calling

Folder, "[Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 13, 1968 TO: Mr. Jim Jones FROM: Ruth McCawley (per Harry McPherson) I called each person's secretary listed below to alert them that a meeting will be held in the Cabinet Room some time tomorrow after noon

Folder, "[Briefing Papers for National Security Council Meeting, August 9, 1967]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

of 100-250, 000 tons .. b. We plan to deal with this problem in November, when we have better estimates of the size of the US harvest, PL-480 availabilities, Vietnam's rice needs and the GVN foreign exchange position. At that time we will propose to you

Folder, "August 2, 1967 - 12:09 p.m. Cabinet Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

it was significant that the Soviet Foreign Minister talked for the first time about their own troubles with extreme elements inside the Soviet Union. The Ambassador said he was reminded of a passage from a book which read, in part: "People who have only enemies don't

Folder, "October 14, 1968 - 1:40 p.m. Foreign Policy Advisory Group meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

recommend three major changes: (1) Under the former orders, a full nuclear response against both the Soviet Union and China was ordered if we were attaeked. Under the change, the response could go to either country - - not both. There could be a small

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)

Venus had been failures. He said the USIB, which was now meeting, would probably re c ommend to the President that the Board be authorized to c onduct an investigation to determine how this informa tion reached the p r ess. The Times story was similar

Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 10 p.m. Detroit crisis - President's activities from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

and shoot civilians in Det!" oit. !' Ge:iera.l Throckmorton said, 11 Mr. Presicient, we will only shoot under tl:e most severe prove.cations." · ·::-::. . .~ P .:.· eside:at tJ ld Genera!. ·:·~·_:.:.0~ km. ortcn to save as muc h time ::~::; µc.- ssib.a; oy

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

. The President asked that any matters of urgent importance be brought to his attention at any time, day or night. He designated no inter mediary. 6. At 12:30 I went to the President• s office in the Executive Office Building to tell him of the information

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

thought it would be useful to report to the NSC on a situation which was like a time bomb that could blow up any time in the next six weeks . His report largely reflected the State Department memorandwn submitted prior to the meeting. One of the principal

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Peace offensive re Vietnam, 1/5/1966, Volume 3, Tab 37," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

was insulting, and the press from the first day said the pause would not lead to negotiations. This time, none of these things happened. Twenty - five secondary demarches are under way. that Hanoi is under great pressure. The Yugoslavs tell us Diplomatic effo

Folder, "January 26, 1968 - 11 a.m. Pueblo 7 - Senior advisors - McNamara, Katzenbach, Wheeler, Helms, Nitze, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

. That time will be required to get all of our units on the ground and make them combat effective. · Secretary McNamara: We should have working sessions periodically to discuss these matters. We may do this without the President. I suggest that we ask

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Situation in Vietnam, 2/8/1965, Volume 3, Tab 29," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

good results from this strike based on report s received so far . Acting Secretary Ball spoke of the effect of the North Vietnamese attack on Soviet Premier Kosygin's visit to Hanoi. He said it may be that Soviet Union was not aware of plans

Folder, "May 14, 1968 - 3:04 p.m. President's meeting with his Cabinet," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

COP~TED PubUtatlon Reqoires P1rmi11iuH af Eutttright Holder. W. Jho.na; JeliMon NOTES OF THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH THE CABINET, 1v1A Y 14, 1968 CLIFFORD: There has been a change of tactics between the time of Tet and now. The wearing

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

preparatory steps eo that execution could be accompliehed within 7 2 hours but he was not asking approval at this time. He said under no circumstances would he recommend the use of ChiNat Divisions. I , l j 5. The President asked that I prepare a very brief

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Manila Conference, 10/15/1966, Volume 4, Tab 47," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

, it was later decided to spend the meeting time discussing the President's Asian trip . Following the change in the subject matter of the meeting, it was arranged that Secretary McNamara and General Wheeler see the President alone prior to the NSC Meeting

Folder, "Policy Papers and Background Studies on Cuba Affair (V)," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 8 (Item)

:45 Wiesner & Chr ASC enter Test ban discussion. Pres. 'Do we have to test in 163? 1 In order to develop 50 megaton weapons in 10,000 lb. size would hove to test in 1 63. Should be done in May . Some could be done underground. Rusk against time I imit

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Monetary Issues, Vietnam, UN, 11/25/1968, Volume 5, Tab 76," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

good for a period of time. -- Export tax incentives: We still don't know what form they will take or how much they will be. -- Imports: Nothing special expected although there may possibly be some restrictions through licensing. Generally, the French

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)

of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Sovi et Union has conducted three undergr ound tests which we have detected. ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION (1) Is a more than 50 per cent increase in the number of tests justified? The pertinent considerations bearing

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

to the con clusion that it is unlikely that an effective sabotage program will be conducted. In explanation he pointed out that the policymakers, each time for good reasons, had turned sabotage operations on and off to such an extent that a program

Folder, "May 7, 1968 - 1 p.m. Tuesday luncheon with Foreign Policy Advisors - Rusk, Clifford, Wheeler, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

about Vietnam. He wanted Mansfield and John Sherman Cooper at the discussions in Paris. Fulbright wanted to know how seriously the President wanted peace. told him, "Bill, about 50 times as much as you do." I The President: I have told the press

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] NATO, 12/13/1966, Volume 4, Tab 48," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

to the allies. They must understand that the demands on u s to me e t home front needs ar e serious - that we are facing a budge t of 142 billion with revenue estimat es of 120 billion. The labor unions are going to get raises and U.S . Government employees