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  • Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos. In those instances, military assistance has been transferred from the Foreign Assistance Act to the Department of Defense budget. I think that's appropriate because I don't think the military LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Vietnam
  • Military Assistance Program; American foreign policy; Vietnam; national security; disarmament; ABM; defense policies
  • overseas trip I took was in the spring of 1967--1 believe it was April--when I went to Japan and the Philippines and Vietnam and Thailand, again strictly on Air Force business. M: Mr. Paul, how do you relate your first two Defense positions in OSD
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  • Early government positions Paul held before becoming Assistant Secretary of Defense; his views of LBJ’s decisions relating to Vietnam; availability and suitability of various planes and equipment; budgetary items; training of personnel; military
  • blurred in my mind. F: Authority sources are much better sources than I am for that. There were also in '63 rumors of a policy rift in Vietnam between Ambassador Lodge and the CIA chief in Vietnam. Can you lend credence to that, or is this again
  • Vietnam
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA