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Folder, "March 11, 1968 - 6:57 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on additional troops for Vietnam," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • Johnson Attached are the notes of your meeting Monday night in the Cabinet Room on additional troops for Vietnam. Those who attended were: Secretary Rusk (departed before meeting actually began) Secretary Clifford General Wheeler General Taylor Under
Folder, "February 13, 1968 - 1:12 p.m. Tuesday luncheon group - Rusk, McNamara, Helms, Clifford, Wheeler, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • ? Secretary McNamara: There is no problem at present. General Wheeler: We do not have with us now a recommendation on reserve call-up. The Joint Chiefs are working on that today. The first troops will begin moving out of U.S. facilities tomorrow night at 6 p
Folder, "February 12, 1968 - 1:45 p.m. Senior Foreign Policy Advisors meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • Westmoreland wants to take advantage of an opportunity to exploit the situation. I do not read it as a desperate need. He wants to shorten the war with it, and that has a certain attractive­ ness to all of us. It bothers me that we do not know what is happening