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  • Contributor > Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003 (remove)

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  • magnificent morale at home. Read the following paragraphs from the Bunker-Abrams cable: "Maintaining the morale, fighting spirit and momentum of U.S. and ARVN forces is absolutely essential. Directives have gone out on the U.S. and GVN side to intensify our
  • . The general feeling is. to press forward with this program. Douglas Dillon and McGeorge Bundy agreed that South Vietnam should and must do more. Walt Ros tow said South Vi~tnam must improve administration, fight corruption and be more aggressive
  • would they do if they were President? 8. Douglas Dillon 1 s questions mainly centered on possibilities for escalation against the North; that is, mining the harbors, hitting the dikes, etc. 9. Incidentally, I detected in this group no sentiment
  • , get me my brltchea, I am going home. When we argued agalnat him, he aald, 1 want to be home where they know 11 when yoa are alck and care when you dle. " That ls the wa.y lt l• betweenu•. In theee da.y• ahead yoa will find the U.S. will stretch
  • in political or economic systems. Such a com1-:-7 ,--:_ would provide a further assurar1ce t.11at Viet~Na.m ~ North as weL 3..3 ;:.,__ · • . ­ have a home where it could survive and follow its own pattern 1-:. : .'..i:.s system but benefitting from
  • NOTHING IN TRYING TO LIVE WITH ISRAEL. USG HAD SPOKEN A GREAT DEAL ABOUT HUMAN AND LEGAL RIGHTS IN VIET NAM. WHAT ABOUT ARAB RIGHTS? WHAT ABOUT VILLAGES THAT HAD BEEN LEVELLED ON WEST B~NK BY ISRAEL? WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN EVICTED FROM THEIR HOMES