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and when I went out, obviously, I talked to a lot of old friends and new
friends in the press business, and that was a major gripe.
My
recollection is that they were sending it through the telegraph office.
I don't know which one, whether it was IT&T
- the first combat
troops
to Vietnam, the marines,
doing this
and the instructions
and he was explaining
it, why he was
that he had given these marines and so
on .
Well,
it was very clear to me at
the point that I was going back
to daily journalism
- , I haven't had a hot shower in two weeks."
They were talking
about the fact that the people they were advising would not listen to
their advice, that they were deliberately telegraphing their attacks so
that the other side could get away
- Resolution.
F:
Right.
G:
None of us knew, of course, that the Tonkin Resolution was spurious.
And you're familiar, of course, with the telegraph that was
suppressed from Captain Herrick of the r·laddox.
If that telegraph
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anything like that he telegraphed the punch through the papers, which you
know is not uncommon
- information.
A couple of
times when they closed down the telegraph machine, I'd let the press
file limited copy through embassy channels to Washington.
There's no
way you can gild that lily and there's no sense in trying.
In fact,
if anything
- didn't understand English or something because I
caught him right on, I mean I learned about it through the channels.
The grapevine works better than telegraph lines sometimes.
to tell him to come over there.
says.
So I had
I said, "This order means
- that they were going on an operation.
The B-52 strikes were
telegraphed ahead for weeks due to the international air space regulations.
Finally they were able to get that under control, not totally,
even in the final days, but at least we did some good.
G