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- : Tell us about our meeting in Paris.
Secretary Rusk: It was standard. There was not much progress. North
Vietnam blasted American politics. But the tea break produced an agreement
for a Saturday meeting -- a private talk. We might press Hanoi
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DISCUSSION OF THE AGENDA FOR TOMORROW'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
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MEETING, ORDERED BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON TO DISCUSS THE SOVIET THREAT
IN EASTERN EUROPE.
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PRESS SECRETARY GEORGE CHRISTIAN ASKED IF THE CALL
- should talk to Dobrynin tonight.
Secretary Rusk:
For the press to know I call him in to give him our
views it will be good to position ourselves publicly.
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- of Cubans - no mention of Guantanamo Pres.• - says no one in govt. see anyone until we settle Cuba Rusk says low level no high level on account weather. U Thant knows.
we are going to survey - cancelling Press Conference - bui Ids up pressure quarantine
- disposit ion of Soviet troops in Cen tral Europe.
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Director Helms and Secretary Rusk will give us their views on the German
reaction t o the c risis. The press has already p rinted that the State Department
was recommending additional reassurances
- the presence
SECRETARY RUSK: North Vietnam is not clearly on board in this. The acceptance
of North Vietnam of South Vietnam at the conference table is a recognition that the
Viet Cong are not sole government in the South.
We must press for flat commitments
- of your providing for the President even
an approximate estimate of the additional casualties we would take if we
stopped the bombing of North Vietnam?
New subject: President also believes you should make sure that TV
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cameras and press cover
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press. They did not.
The Pres i dent: Wasn't this hard to swallow?
CIA Director Helms: Yes .
the troops could move in.
Military exercises were designed to s ee how
The President:Should the Secretary talk to Dobrynin tonighti
CIA Director Helms: Yes
- - Discussion on Vietnam, Robert Kennedy, Eisenhower,
Alliance for Progress, role of ror.
42.
9 December 1963 - Briefing.
General revi·ew.
Press, McNamara, Vietnam.
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43. 13 December 1963 - Introduced DDCI, Peer
de Silva., reviewed checklist.
Discussed
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are going to press the offensive in the South and in Laos, and so long as we
are prepared to resume the bombing if they violate the DMZ or attack the
main cities, 11 he is ready to go along. •:After all,'' he said, ''the problem
is not to stop
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it is our task to see that it does not happen .
NOTE: There is attached a copy of the transcript of Press Secretary
Salinger 1s press briefing which was author ized by the President
following the meeting.
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