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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION :::!:!!:-~ THE JOINT CHIEFS OF WASHINGTON, D.C. /cony #1 - The President c I #2 - General Eisenhower STAFF no other copies 'G 20301 ""]../ ,...,.-· -":'"""~~-- 17 February 1965 - --- MEMORANDUM OF MEETING
Folder, "[February 17, 1965 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting with General Eisenhower and Others]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1

office in the Executive Office Building to tell him of the information received from Mexico City. In attendance was Mr. Bundy. Follow ·ng thi& I had a brief exchange with President Eisenhower who w.as visiting with President Johnson at the time. 7. Thie

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

~· MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT WITH HUGH SIDEY OF TIME MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 8, 1967 This was a general discussion on American involvement in Vietnam. The President said that President Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson had done everything possible

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

people don't know how the other one-third live. (The President cited the health, education, social security budget increases of $19. 3 billion in 1961 to $23 billion in 1964, $42 billion in 1968 and a projected $47 billion in 1969. He said Eisenhower

w as Marshallesque and re served , but he did tell Mrs. Johnson on the telephone that he got f ull support - 2 from the Commander-in-Chief. The President said that Westmoreland reported that he had a good meeting with President Eisenhower

Folder, "[April 4, 1968 - 3:50 p.m. Meeting with U Thant]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

, even with the best of motivations, the more hostile one gets towards the stay. Our government in Berma is anti-communist, but we try to deal with our problems by our own means. Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles g ave us g enerous aid by way of arm s

the President anything he wants. "In fact, they are trying to give me an anti- riot bill which I do not want. 11 The President said he talked to General Eisenhower today. 11 1 think you (Eisenhower) would be good for Secretary McNamara, and Mc~amara would

[Folder title list], Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

] [February 17, 1965 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting with General Eisenhower and Others] [April 28, 1965 - 7:30 p.m. Meeting with Congressional Leaders on Dominican Republic] [May 16, 1965 - 6:45 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam] [June 11, 1965 - 11

the Republicans are gutting the bill." The President noted "in 1960, Eisenhower indicted only 19 people from organized crime and we've indicted l~ 190 this year alone. One of the problems today is that they didn't do anything about it in those Republican years

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

also advised the President that Doubleday wants to do the President's memoirs. He said this firm published Eisenhower and Truman. The President said he had turned all the publishing offers he has received over to a lawyer, and decisions would be made

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

they were moving surprising!y fast. On the language matter, he cited a parallel: When President Eisenhower was asked what decisions Vice President Nixon had participated in, he said that if he had a week, he 1 d think of some. The President said he felt sure

freshmen that in war, politics stops at the water's edge. He said he supported President Eisenhower while Majority Leader 79% on foreign policy, even when the Republican Senate leader refused to help his President. He said he didn 1 t expect these Freshmen

Folder, "[October 2, 1967 Congressional Leadership Meeting]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

added that he does not know who is running Congress, whether it's Wilbur Mills or George Mahon or whom. He Hen said he hates to impound funds because he had given President Eisenhower much static for impoilnding funds. Last year Wilbur Mills made

and Eisenhower have given me their reservations. cautious about trusting them. They say be I'm glad we're going to talk, but I'm not overly hopeful. Some of you think we want resolution of this in an election year. I want it resolved, but not becalBe

•uTHE SECURITY AND FREEDOM OF BERLIN, A COMMITMENT WHICH WAS DEMONSTRATED IN 19481 WHICH · ~AS BEEN REITERATED BY PRESIDENTS EISENHOWER AND KENNEDY AND WHICH ' IS AS ' FIRM AND EXPLICIT TODAY AS rr WAS WHEN IT " WAS MADE· . TH SHOULD BE KNOWN IN BERLIN

in Eisenhower's 1954 letter were no longer supported by the people of Vietnam themselves. Secretary Rusk asked Ambassador Taylor if it could be said that the key leaders had looked at the dangers of recent weeks and might be sobered toward responsibility

here remark that "The Lcacership seems mighty hawky so far.'') The Russians had problems a:nd weaknesses of e1eir own. The President read parts of a message fro::n Ge!leral Eisenhower to P!'ime Minister Churchill at a time of crisis in Vietnam in 1954

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

. It is unfortunate we are there, but throughout history we have had to face this situation where aggressors try to capture their enemies. Eisenhower told Kennedy this would be his biggest problem. Kennedy attempted to solve the South east Asian situation

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

attacked Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. He added, however, that Fulbright had reported out all of his Ambassadors from his committee. - 6 The President said foreign aid would be reduced, but he thinks that we will wind up with less

Folder, "[January 31, 1968 - Meeting with Congressional Leaders]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

: . but it ~as manageable. In fact prices rose an average of onl~. 3_~ · 1 ... -.: .. ·- percent per year during the 1961-1968 period -- an identical increase to that of . . the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration. During the Korean War, when the government

Notes of President's Meeting with the Joint Chiefs on Vietnam October 14, 1968, 1:50 to 4:40 P. M., Cabinet Room The President Defense Secretary Clifford JCS Chairman Wheeler Gen. Palmer (for Gen, Westmoreland who was attending the Eisenhower ceremony

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