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  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 their supporters out to demonstrate support for him. I coordinated this. B: Have you done any other advance work like that? C: I advanced--when the President went to Honolulu in mid-July to meet with President Thieu of South
  • , there were letters: 78 favoring it and 54 opposing it, and 15 offering comments on it. On Saigon's stand: only 11 backed Saigon, 58 were critical of Saigon and the Thieu government, 29 comments. pro, 35 con, and 36 comment. And on the US policy
  • , Wyoming. I was supposed to do The President at that time was just returning, in fact he hadn't returned yet, from a trip to the Far East where he met I guess with Ky and Thieu and the top Vietnamese people. In any event, by the 1966 elections
  • , stayed with Bob Komer, spent a good deal of time with Thieu and Ky, and traveled throughout the country. We were in every corps [area]. We got over to the Cambodian border, down into the Delta, out into the Navy units' operations, up with the Marines in I
  • will get along just fine." So then he told me, "I'm going .to Hawaii this weekend to meet wi.th Westmoreland and Ky and Thieu"--who have been number one and number two men in the Vietnamese_government--"and I want you to go as part of the staff. 11 I
  • . • Thieu and Ky emerged as leaders. We brought them about as fast as we dared. I'm afraid we've overstepped the Constitution-speeding it the way we did. But I have no reluctance about those two men. When Madame Chennault told them would get a better deal
  • d1at I would have done. I would have done with him just what I tried to do with Thieu -- get him to get a constituti on and democra tic governme nt and have some land reform, improve his army and do as good as we can. I think there's an extent to what
  • or it became la~" President's signature, Bill Hopkins saw to it that on that day t~2 head~~ P:-esicient knew about it. t~ Pres:_
  • the President was pretty impatient at that time with Thieu also. So much for the conversations on foreign affairs. Some of the other things that happened in that period were as follows: first, he came to New York for an Urban League dinner. That decision
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