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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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FROM: Torn Johnson
Attached are the notes of your Wednesday night meeting,
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Those that attended were:
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
- the toughness of the times ahead.
!he President read his speech which is scheduled for Saturday night
at a Salute to the President in Washington.
SECRETARY McNAMARA: Left before the speech was concluded
because of another engagement.
SECRETARY RUSK: Said he
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Director Helms: Read proposed letter from the President to Kiy and
Thieu on the Vietnamese elections
- have seen are based on a
hope and a prayer and not on knowledge. I read several hundred cables
each week -- cables from capitals around the world. I read CIA reports,
State Department reports and Defense Department reports. I can say to
you tonight
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to understand these things.
But I do want to talk instead of fight.
The President read a memo from a recent visitor to Hanoi who reported
that there had been a hardening of Hanoi's position. The President also
read a cable from Ambassador Bunker which said
- intermediaries involved thus closing down the private channel.
This private rebuff must be read in the light of Hanoi's recent public state
ments. These have all been extremely negative on the subject of peace
negotiations. Let me cite a few of the more