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  • . [At this point, Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown read the citation as follows:] CITATION The President of _the United States of America, au­ thorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1896, has awarded, in the name of The Congress, the Medal of Honor to MERLYN
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "March 31st Speech, Vol. 8"
  • their American masters. In October the General Assembiy ot the United Nations voted to ~eat·the'Chinese·Pepple!s·Republic. Before the 1ssne reached the Security Council. Peking angrily rejected the proposition unless the Chiang Kai-shek faction was expelled
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  • of SIGMAI-66 was to examine some of the major issues, problems and questions associated with a deescalation of the war in Vietnam. The teams in SIGMAI-66 represented the United States (Blue), Republic of South Vietnam (Green), National Liberation Front
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  • our troops in the ~xpcc'!:aticr. thr-:.t they ~ig:1t create ?.dve::..·se psyc:~o:o~:.­ h1. the United States anC: thus a chance :n r:,olicy? cal reactions 4 ., • • .. • • , J.. • • .1 I an:1. inclined to the f orme-r fo.cory. It s ecms to me
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "March 31st Speech, Vol. 6"
  • '' >" COPY LBJ LIBRARY 1. Australia, Canada, and tlie Netlierlands responded v/ith assurance of support of tlie United States' position and of tlieir desire to be as helpful as possible. Menzies sent a reply to President Johnson promising "continuing
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965: Volume 7"
  • out on the high seas in an act of aggression against the United States of America. . . . . . . The challenge that we face in Southeast Asia todav is the same challenge that we have faced with courage and that we have met with strength in Greece
  • See all scanned items from file unit "[Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XVI, 8/16?31/64"
  • The P r e s id e n t m a k e s public h is in s tr u c tio n s i s s u e d the p r e v io u s day to U. S. Navy units in the Gulf o f Tonkin. ) The D ep a r tm e n t of State p u b lic iz e s the U .S . p r o t e s t note to N orth V ietn a m . M cN a m
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Presidential Decisions-Gulf of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964-Volume I"
  • during th e re st of th e sessions of th e S en ate th is week. UNITED STATES ACTION AGAINST N O RTH VIETNAM Mr. GORE. Mr. P resident, w hatever doubts one m ay have held regarding th e policy an d actions of th e U nited S tate s in S o u th V ietnam
  • See all scanned items from file unit "[Section 3 - North Vietnam: All Activity] 3 A (2) Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 ? 68"
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965: Volume 5"
  • •• 1 }: 1I I 1 ,__t.~ •• '.• r~ :)~lj.,,-.; . I~ .. PA~~ \n_;.. NOT_ DONE·_--"1·•·1N ·:OT.HER.WORDS;' A. RENEWAL~--,/~f OF OLD THE CHARGE THAT. HANOI rs BASING ITS. POLICY .ON THE' PEACE • : :' '-~-~: ;•'t;i .. .• MOVEMENT IN UNITED
  • , 1968 -- 7:35 p. m. -----·. Mr. President: r.. Herewith three papers fror.n Clark Clifford. on the reserve call-up, •. 1. showing: A memorandum the units called up to back up the additional ,South Vietnam deployment; ( additional
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "March 31st Speech, Vol. 4"
  • between 1/u•. Forrestal a:.'l.d G::meral Krulak.(thcn in the JCS as their Vietnam man) as to \Vhcther General 'Taylor ever cleared the message. I boli:ave it is agreed that.:Mr. Gilpatric did so by phone from his Easte:--n Shore farm, on the basis t.h~t
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Hilsman, Roger (Vietnam - Diem) (1963)"
  • :::, ,.;_ s~c.•/~;(!:u ' ~a:fA--. :1l•~ J... : . . /LC~ rJ.,,:. ~ . The courses of action which Diem and Nhu could take to maintain l themselves in power and the United States responses thereto are as. i follows: Th,) Secretary TO "f. n C)
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  • aggression on the high seas again st the United S ta te s o f America. The determ ination o f a l l Americans to carry out our f u l l commitment to the people and to the government o f South Vietnam w ill be redoubled by t h is outrage. Yet our response, fo
  • See all scanned items from file unit "[Section 3 - North Vietnam: All Activity] 3 A (2) Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 ? 68"
  • IT E D TO GENERAL COMMENTS ON TH E TONKIN GULF S ITU A TIO N , COUPLED ‘ WITH EXPRESSIO N OF APPRECIATION FOR WHAT AMERICA HAS 06NE IN RECENT YEARS TO AID IN D IA , PA RTIC U LA RLY IN REGARD TO PRESEN T FOOD S ITU A TIO N . GP-3. ’ • BOWLES V ^NOTE
  • See all scanned items from file unit "[Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XV, 8/1964"
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Presidential Decisions-Gulf of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964-Volume II"
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965: Volume 1"
  • ) . that. so. long ·as it remains the policy of the United States of America to discourage such trade, neither the _____(N_ame _____f__,V_e__e_l_J______ 0 86 the other vessels listed above, nor any other vessel which may hereafter be und er the control
  • senior and action level teams, each rep­ resenting one of the following: the United States, the Soviet Union, ~he Viet Cong, North Vietnam, Red China, and the Govern­ ment ot South Vietnam. Action level players analyzed the sce­ nario situation
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  • ..,,_ has been considerable, .. ~ inflated_by civilians.·. .. ; ~ .... _ ,,,._ incltli¼io~ ~~ To some extent .... by measures already taken. 2 - Heavy S•E•C ft•E•'f infiltration of both new units is continuing. made prior A strenuous
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "March 31st Speech, Vol. 3"
  • that the offensive was "staggered." On the latter point, it had been planned for all attacks to occur at the same time but units in MR 5 did not get delay orders and attack one day early. The document lists ttirfe Q.ptlo??-t-now open: ( 1) continue to try to get
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "March 31st Speech, Vol. 3"
  • being submitted separately. Acceleration of the issue of M-16 rifles, M-60 machine guns and M-29 mortars to South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) units would improve our posture in ec~nomy of force areas. The importance of helicopter assets in the pending battle
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "March 31st Speech, Vol. 6"
  • SIGMAII-65 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS THB GAMEDIRECTORFOR ~IGMAII-65 COLONEL GEORGE A. LINCOIB WAS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH PRESENTPOSITION: Professor and Head ot Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. SCHOO
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  • See all scanned items from file unit "JCS -- War Games, Vol. 3, 1/65 ‑ 11/65"
  • states will support a meaningful OAS resolu ­ tion, we should oppose the convening of the OAS on this is sue . The President said we should begin now to find out how the Latin America!'l states feel toward this resolution and then decide what we should do
  • Latin America
  • whateve r leads they may get. We don't int end to become weaker in S outheast Asia. We are following a course to unite our people and make possible a follow through. The diplomatic offensive boils down t o saying that we are ready t o r eason this out. One
  • a the will of. the people as we want. to see it mobilized. Clearly, essential the price to our national withdrawing short people-rallying II. to be paid for convincing interest of "victory." program It was suggested could not be drafted America would
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  • ENGAGED AM'j OUTNUMEEFiED ARvN U?-3ITS* IN THE JUNE REPO?JT ON UNIT CCMB^J EFFECTIVENESS SUBMITTED Page THREE RUT'IJIR 1321 A / 1 T 0 P S~ E C R £ T BY THE SE NIOR DVISORS ON 51 REGIME^n•S, 95 BATT,:.LICMS 5 23 RANGER BATTALIONS, AND 5 MARINE BATTALlOMS
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965: Volume 5"
  • the United "Trent" a shell to board in Boston In England, When the sloop Mason and Slidell, The event vessel sent Commissioners on an island naval of the bow. then a party respectively, Slidell "Trent," across slow down, the American
  • of the United Nations. W e welcome— and we invite— the scrutiny of all men who seek peace, for peace is the only purpose of the course that America pursues. The G u lf of Tonkin may be distant, but none can be detached about what has hap­ pened there. Aggression
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Presidential Decisions-Gulf of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964-Volume II"
  • South Vietnam and we to o k no a c tio n t o r e t a l i a t e f o r th e a c ts of te r r o r i s m a g a i n s t United S ta t e s personnel, ■ B, F i r s t G u l f o f Tonkin A tt a c k On August 2 , 1964, North Vietnamese b o a t s a t t a c k e d
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  • people o f South V iet Nam, who are fig h tin g and who are dying fo r the r ig h t to choose t h e ir own way o f l i f e , t h is r e so lu tio n says: America keeps her prem ises, and we w i l l back up those promises w ith a l l the resources that we
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965: Volume 4"
  • e b lo - p p . 4 2 , 45, and 105. THE GULF OF TONKIN, THE 1964 INCIDENTS HEARING BEFORE TH E COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE NINETIETH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION W IT H THE HONORABLE ROBERT S. McNAMARA, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Presidential Decisions-Gulf of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964-Volume III"
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  • , be it Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as &mmander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed
  • See all scanned items from file unit "[Section 3 - North Vietnam: All Activity] 3 A (2) Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 ? 68"
  • a lit t le b it , la t e r . 74 COPY LBJ LIBRARY ■ e tS E C R rr L I S T OP U N IT S A LERTED AND/OR MOVED AS A R E S U L T OP 4 AUGUST JCS-SECDEP MEETING A. FORCES TO DEPLOY AS SOON AS P O S S IB LE ORDERED PROM TO UNIT/COMPOSITION 1 CVS
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Gulf of Tonkin (Miscellaneous), 1964"
  • COPY LBJ LIBRARY COPY LBJ LIBRARY J u l y l, 1965 V TE T-N A M DECLASSIFIED Authority 1. STATE Isttsr MAR 7 1979 NARS, D a t e _ il£ £ l2 f U . S . Objective The central objective of the United States in South Viet-Nam must be to insure
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965: Volume 6"
  • in America. L it t le if any i s lik e ly to be F o r the most p a rt,, c o n t rib u tio n s have taken the form o f s m a ll - s c a le g ra n ts o f economic and te c h n ic a l a ssista n c e A and re p re se n t in most cases a c o n tin u a tio
  • See all scanned items from file unit "[Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XVI, 8/16?31/64"
  • h e p e a c e and s a f e t y o f th e ■ p a rties t o tihe t r e a t y ; T h e r e fo r e be I t • R eso lv ed by th e S en ate and House o f R e p r e s e n ta tiv e s o f t h e U n ited S t a t e s o f America in C ongress a ssein b led . That th
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  • AND SAID THAT HE WOULD PROPOSE MEETING WITH US EARLY NEXT WEEK. -' *} . \ • WITH REGARD TO USE OF GENERAL I^HANH AS MISSIONARY IN LATIN ' . AMERICA (REF C)» HE IS NOT INCLINED PRESENTLY TO ENCOURAGE KHANH to VISIBLE OR AUDIBLE ACTIVITIES. HE IS QUITE
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Deployment of Major U.S. Forces to Vietnam, July 1965: Volume 4"