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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
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We know we cA.n tell SVN "we're coming home." Is that
thn option we should take? What floVls from that.
The neGotiafionR, the pause, all the other approacheR
have all been explored. It mnkAs us look weak -- wi~
cup in ha.nd. We have tried.
look
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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
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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
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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 . ^ , ■
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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
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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
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s e a LOCs.
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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
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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 .
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WE R E A LLY FACED FAR G REATER R IS K S I^^ EUROPE A':)D lU KOREA,
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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
