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34 results
- of North Vietnam_cou ld be stopped if we got in
retu rn a symmetrical de - escalation .
Secretary Rusk:
probes :
Responded to th e President's request to revi e w our peace
We have u n dertaken dozens of probes . We have been in touch with the
Pope
- , Fc~h m·13r
De lhi, Tehra n, Ca i ro nnd Da e::;kok. He l enven D:meko'k early
to:norrm-J c:.ornin:; for Tokyo and ~1ill p~oc•;ed fr om t here to
Cimbcrra Bnd Saigon.
(b) Arthur Gol clbc!:g h~n visited the Pope , Sarag!lt,
Horo, li'anf'ani, DcGt:ullc
- . But the military
situation is basic.
(The President asked that no note s be taken of following comment which h e
made to the group . )
We have many irons in the fire and not all of them are in the newspapers.
There has been an exchange with the Pope who sent
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PRO\JINCSo WE P?.STENDED
- Affairs
Lt . Gen. Joseph F . Carroll, D i rector,
Defense Intelligence Agency
Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of the Army
Paul H . Nitze, Secretary of the Navy
Eugene M . Zuckert, Secretary of the Air Force
JCS
General Maxwell D. Taylor , Chairman
- and as a last resort, we will have to give
the supersonics, but we should first try to get Jordan to buy them from a
European supplier. The decision in the Jordan case is a major one invol vi ng all
the Middle East.
Act ing Defense Secretary Vance: The Jordan
- , and improved their road ne t s.
e . Morale is down in Viet Cong ranks and is uncertain in the North
Vietnamese army . It is not ye t a t t h e br e aking point.
Secretary McNamara read from a Rand report on the ext ensive damage done t o
the Vi e t Cong
-
Military
Casualties
3,600
90
720
NO GOOD ESTIMATES
Civi lians
40
0
30
General Wheeler: The attack on Pleiku came as a surprise. The r e we re no
South Vi~tnamese casuaities . Our fo rces were in a compound outside the town.
The a r ea has been quiet
- are holding out and the enemy is attempting to reinfo r ce them. In
the vicinity of Saigon there are two Vi et Cong divisions.
Gen. Westmoreland reports from the field that the Hue - Danang area is the
most se riou s problem. Th r ee ARVN battalions
- .) :-iou3. th~ Cy-priot:; . C:-eel;::i. a::l1
Tul"ks
- worked on .
( 1) Khanh is a very impres s ive person who ·realizes fully that
hfo problem i s not just militar>' ·
( 2 ) We ne e d to get rnore flags flyin g in $(}uth Vi etnam . We
need to help persuade other coun tr ies to pr ovide ass i s tance to
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- absence, as well as all the
other U . S. personnel who serve in Vi e tnam .
Ambassador Taylor noted his own appreciation and admiration
in the members of the U . S. team .
The meeting adjourned at 3: 15 .
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Chester L. Co~
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- could expect
some pretty heavy fighting in the next few days.
S-RV1Cf!SET
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L IST OF A TT EN DEES, NSC M E E TING
Ma rch 6 , 1968; W e dne s day. lZ: OO noon
Vi ce Pre s ident Humph r ey
Se cretary of State Ruak
De p uty Unde r Secre tary B ohl
-
In response to a reques t from t he President, Mr. lvlcCone reported
that there was nothing new out of Vi etnam this morning worthy of
mention . Secretary Rusk said that we had preliminary information
about what might become an important new development , l. e
- to make
decisions prior to the re t urn of Secr etary McNamara .
Secreta ry Rusk said he was taking a sober view, even a pessimistic
vi~w of developments in South Vietnam .
Listing the points of weakness
in the situation in Vietnam was a way for us
- Bundy
George Reedy
B ill M oy ers
Ja ck Va lenti
B romley Smith
SEAVJCESET
TH C: WHITE HOUSE
WA SHINGION
M arch 2 6 , 1965
.M.E.MOR /'iNDUl\1 FOR THE PRESID ENT
I ;:ti.ini< the KSC meeting today should. be devotc
- will reinforce the military power they
now have a nd make a drive into central Vi e tn am -- possibly even further south.
Hitting the POL ta r gets w ill hurt t hem in moving rice and weapons to replace
those we have captured. Th ey hav e to step up t he
- position on
whe the r we think the a lli es are carrying their fair share in relation to what we
are doing. This position will be essential in defending our policy domes t ically.
Ac ting Secret ary Katzenbach: The a llies' vi ew of the Soviet thr eat
- of the authority of the South Vi etnamese Government. For
example, we constructed 65 school rooms in one area, only to have 55 of them
destr oyed within the year.
The Council then turned to a discussion of the President ' s Asian trip, including
the Manila
- Planning Council. Although
1:.e did not identify the writer, he clearly was referring to :VI= . Brzezinski (a
c~o .. o: Mr . 3rzezinski 1 s :nen1orar:dur:i. is attached t';;l t.tiis :record. )
. '
The President: Did not support all the views
- ¥
political pressure at the UN and elsewhere.
r
Because he expects to gain
complete control of the SAM system vi thin the next few wee.ks he hopes
tliat, with Soviet support, his warnings will be taken seriously and the
US compelled to abandon U-2 flights
- and
the Viet Cong.
General Wheele r: The Chiefs be li eve that ground a ction against the No rth
Vi etn amese e ffort is adequate to reverse the situation. Air s trikes on the three
ta rgets are not n ecessa ry f rom a n1ilitary point of view. However, a South
- OF BRE AD•AND
BUT TE R ISSUES - - TO PRE VENT THE MUCH SMAL LER RA DICAL ST UDENT S
ALL IA NCE AND OTHER ACTI VIS TS FR OM CARTURI NG CONTROL AT LEAST
FOR ANOTHER YEAR.
(, ECO NOM IC STRAINS OF RECENT YEARS AND GOV Tr s l~EPT HANDLING OF
THE WORKERS
- late this yc:ar o>· early
JICXt )'~Vi
-
THAT 7~5: WAR CAN BS ENDED' .SOLEY THROUGH IMPLEME NTATION OF THE
PACIFICATION PROGRAM . THEY FEEL THAT A~ 4TTACK ON NORTH vI :T~ 4M
MUST TAKE PL ACE. TH:: CO?tPS COMMA~lDEP. BELIEVES TH '1T HE NO '. '.-. 3
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or a 4IT! S rcgi:;tr a tton?
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Yll •e.n wil l •.;·...,
h~vc :l
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S 1 bco~m~ :: e e Chairmen of t"he Se ace and Ho se
vices Com!'l ·ttee s would e inv· ted 11 so t' at . ey may ea r che
he i:e aso s for the c
I
ave recent _y vi ·ced w·ch t hese l fern.be s, Se ators R ssel
and Syming-on and Congressmen Rivers
- some ground with the Greeks duri.ng that vi~it. Mr.
Bundy felt less opti.lnistic , notir1g Greek peevishness over the President' s
latest letter .
T he President recalled that Papandreou had pressed for a US formulc..
when he was here. Mr . B all
- Cong guerrilla. ::md t errorist ncti vi ty i n South Vietnam.
This
decla.ration, we further presume, !IlD.kes i t cleo.r that the US means
to go beyond specific reprisels f or i nd.ividua.l n&jor Viet Cong
actions o.nd to continue air attacks until
- with the National Security Council.
At that meeting , we were briefed on
the major f oreign policy issues by the various cabinet members.
De,f ense Secretary
;.1cNamara t a l ked about South Vi etnam, Secretary of State Rusk about Panama and Brazil,
Under Secretary
- , and especieJ.ly
t hat of the EEC, until the EEC demonstrates that it can ca:rry out the
responsi bilities of a surplus area "1.sely and cooperatively. One way
Of dc::1onGtrating this would be through agreement vi th the United states
and t he rest of the world
