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  • DoD, JCS, and CIA (both in Washington and in the field) were opposed to any change. I myself 2 returned from Eu.rope on September 14, and vividly recall that •Mike Forrestal came to me at once to describe the whole contro­ versy and its background
  • of the statement t o be issued from th e White House ann oun cing the reprisal alr strikes in Nor th Vietnam . Why c annot we handle this matter th rough the United Nations ? Senator Mansfield: Can't the Geneva powers act? The President: This cannot be done
  • or Mansfield: Pleas e d to hear the mildly encouraging report of the Vice President. What is the monthly infiltration rate of North Vietnamese ? The Vice P r esident : He had not asked this question in Saigon . Our team in South Vietnam supports the bombing
  • for a special r e port from G en e ral W es tmoreland on Senator Mansfield's alle gations conc e rning drinking and irr egular activities of o ur for ce s . TOP SECftE I /SENS! l'I VE §IMCESET ·.• .. -2­ -TOP SECRET/&ENSTTIVE Ambassador Lodge praised
  • aECREl' fflENSITIVE 3 * ....,. * Senator Mansfield: The North Vietnamese attack has opened many eyes . We are not now in a penny ante game. It appears that the local populous in South Vietnam is not behind us, else the Viet Cong could not have
  • Douglass Cater Bromley Smith Larry 01Brien Chester Cooper Congreaaional Leaders : S enator Dirksen S enator Mansfield Speaker McCorma.ck Representative Gerald F ord SERVlet: ~El
  • will take this matter up with Mansfield and meet with the Committees · if he believes this is wise. I do not like what I am smelling from these cables from Vietnam and my discussions with outside advisers. We know the enemy is likely to hit the cities again
  • (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Fulbright, Sparkman, Mansfield, Morse, Gore, Lausche, Church, Symington, Dodd, Clark, Pell, McCarthy, Hickenlooper, Aiken, Carli>n, Williams, Mundt, Case, and Cooper. Also present: Senators Gruening, Morton, and Percy
  • race, whereas the Vietnamese and Chinese are of another. He realizes that Chinese and North Vietnamese designs on Laos pre-date Communism. ·He told Senator Mansfield in Novem­ ber 1965 that the Chinese had an implacable desire to dominato Southeast Asia