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Folder, "[September 6, 1967 - 11:09 a.m. Meeting with Vietnam Election Observers]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • were fair. I was very impressed with the effort they put into making this an open and fair election. We have never been that careful. 11 Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh said "I was very impressed by the fact that they gave us every protection and I
Folder, "[June 25, 1968 - 10:00 a.m. Staff Meeting]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • Notes of June 25, 10:00 A. M. Staff Meeting with the President In the Cabinet Room The President expressed concern over some recent press reports that the White House staff is tired ... that many officials are soon leaving.•. and that the machinery
  • Press relations
Folder, "[Jack Valenti Memo of February 11, 1966 re: Honolulu Conference]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • AND PROBING MEMBERS OF THE PRESS P~ !1ESARD THEIR FEELING ABOUT THE HONOLULU CONFERENCE: WICKER, SC.e.LI, DONOV.~N, KIKER, KILPATRICK, POTTER, HOFFMAN, STOLLEY, ?.'J~:'.R s, ~· _ ,Z. .­ ET Al. GE~JERAL FITLING AS FOLLOWS: 1. S¥E?T I CISr·! t.i!HI CH
Folder, "[January 20, 1966 - 5:50 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • and then let them have it. (What President wants Rusk to tell idmax:oc press) "It's been 26 days since cease bombing. Harriman has been to 11 Capitals. Goldberg and I, too, plus 113 nations. We know we've done everything we can do and should do to talk rather
Folder, "[February 7, 1965 - 8:00 a.m. National Security Council Meeting]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • the crime. No additional air strikes should be made now. (The statement to be issued by the White House was approved and given to George Reedy for release to the press.) Secretary Dillon: If we encourage an air strike by the South Vietnamese, everyone
Folder, "[September 15, 1967 - 7:27 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • "is it too much to ask (Ambassador) Bunker and (General) Westmoreland to make a report to the nation once a month, on a "Meet the Press" type of program?" McNamara said "perhaps Bunker can do it one month and Westmoreland the next, rather than both together
Folder, "[August 18, 1967 - 8:35 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • to Saigon and argue with them (the press). He said we've got to do something dramatic. Wheeler said he read Larson's report. He cabled it to Westmoreland and asked for a report along the same lines from the I, III and IV Corps areas. The President sent J
Folder, "[November 11, 1968 - 3:00 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors and President-Elect Nixon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • for immediate purposes. - -- -·-- liaison ... . . __ _______ Mr. Nixon said that, despite observations in the press, he had made no decisions on his Cabinet. He hopes to have his Cabinet appointed by December 5. He would naturally like to have someone keep
Folder, "September 4, 1968 - 1 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • : Tell us about our meeting in Paris. Secretary Rusk: It was standard. There was not much progress. North Vietnam blasted American politics. But the tea break produced an agreement for a Saturday meeting -- a private talk. We might press Hanoi
Folder, "[Records of Actions, National Security Council Meetings, August 4, 11, 1964]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • developments in the Congo following a briefing by Under Secretary of State Harriman and CIA Director McCone, ~· Noted the President's instruction to the Secretary of State (1) To press certain Western European and African countries to take all measures
Folder, "[April 2, 1966 -1:30 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • Press relations
Folder, "[October 3, 1967 - Meeting with Rene Maheu of UNESCO and William Benton]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • can. Suggested that Benton and Maheu brief the press on their meeting. -2­ President pointed out the importance of maintaining Congressional support for UNESCO'S budget. It is important to limit budget increases and be able to justify them
Folder, "[October 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • between the U.S. and the USSR. The President and Mr. Carroll concluded with a discussion of the press. The President said he thought too many foreign correspondents followed the lead of a few columnists, and did not portray the facts. He said he wished
Folder, "[February 13, 1967 Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • =-... -· =====-= ~- - --:.:=;·--=- · -..·-.........·- ---·---. ...-_ . -. - ----·--- .. ... . ,. .. .. - ----,.·-=·~""" -- -""'.,-~--,~.=-:--::-=... - _. .. -=--:.-.::-.....:.....-:' -. - • A .. WWW ' MFG. 7•00 ' any possibility n that earlier resumption would be·· miscons.trued - ~ in~.~:',;< .· ~ l ""PA P:»s .M5?J"Y ~Ai¥: !it.tu ~· relation to Mr. Kosygin's visit t~ LondonA' Operations have now been ' · resumed. END QUOTE . ·' Press
Folder, "[September 15, 1967 - Meeting with AFL-CIO Executive Council]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • . _.-/---·-!___. .-/ I .- _,))L--W Mr. Jame ' 'Sufferidge '--------·. 0 ..----> "') . ---·· ----- - --­ Mr. su£7eridge had been one of the election observers in Vietnam. He said thc;lt the press is doing a poor job of reporting, always playing up the da/k
Folder, "[November 1, 1967 - Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors (President Did Not Attend)]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • to the press. You may wish to consider a full leadership meeting of this kind, introduced by yourself, after which you could put the whole thing on television, perhaps when Bunker is here. 2. They both concluded that there was very great progress since 1965. We
Folder, "[February 28, 1968 - 5:30 p.m. Meeting on Copper Strike]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • be pressed to make a settlement based on the Taylor report, but he said that there should be no threat of a Taft-Hartley action, that such a threat would antagonize the unions. The President agreed with him that such a threat would not be wise. Senator
Folder, "[January 3, 1966 Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Bombing Pause]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • the press know about the shape of responses. Bundy: Could tell press to go after the Ambassadors and it would be more persuasive to let them ·say it, not us. President: Alright 0 we wait to see Goldberg • • ..I~ - • -~.-- ...--
Folder, "[January 29, 1966 -11:35 a.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Resumption of Bombing]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • frank, I would hard pressed to show trucks on the road. Also b ·~ difficult for the jets to hit them. Vietnamese are on alert. Probability is exactly what you have outlined -- we must control ourselves without violating the military requirement. it may
Folder, "[February 26, 1966 - 1:05 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • forum to explain this, Would be inopportune to hold debate, Bundy: Get Goldberg to hold press conference next week with State Department auditorium. President: Think it ought to be this afternoon, otherwise newsmen will draw conclusions. Bundy: One
Folder, "October 14, 1968 - Foreign Policy Advisory Group meeting," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • they It If they violate the facts of life, we would be back with "business as usual. " SERVI,. ..: SS'" Sf!!@!f& y• -4­ Secretary Rusk noted that we had just pulled back the NEW JERSEY from around the Vinh area to a point closer to the DMZ. The President pressed
Folder, "[September 29, 1965 Luncheon Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • . Bunc!y said that the President might get a press quel"'y a.bo\.!t tear ga.:; ii he held a press coI'..ie:-"'nce tor."lo:.·:row. McNamara suggested that the President respond by stz..ting (1) tear gas is a hu~ane way to restore order under certain
Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • available to the press. He read the papers, he said, and noted that Gov. fttnney had explained his Vietnam views by saying he 1d been "brain-washed" in Saigon. 'lhe President observed that an;y man "brain-washed" by diplomats and generals might have problems
  • Press relations
Folder, "[November 2, 1967 - Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • . The general feeling is. to press forward with this program. Douglas Dillon and McGeorge Bundy agreed that South Vietnam should and must do more. Walt Ros tow said South Vi~tnam must improve administration, fight corruption and be more aggressive
Folder, "[July 21, 1965 Meetings with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • . Mr. McNamara stressed the need to increase combat intelligence as well (CIA and MACV-J -2 were working on this pro blem) . The President indicated his deep concern about press stories from Saigon that US forces were bombing innocent civilians
Folder, "[Briefing Papers for National Security Council Meeting, September 15, 1966]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • to this problem. We must keep the British in front on this question, but we should also restate as our mm policy our firm commitment to majority rule. The Africans will press for an early decision on revocation of South Africa's mandate for South West Africa
Folder, "[September 5, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • ­ Helms interrupted to say the 100-Day program "is set to go and could be implemented immediately. Walt Rostow said he received a cable toaay with Bunker's recommendation of the main items that they will press on ·the government of Vietnam. Walt Rostow
  • Press relations
Folder, "[Briefing Papers for Tuesday Luncheon, February 6, 1968]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • entirely. The Arabs are beginning to believe that we aren't even trying to press Israel. In fact, we can take some credit for Eban 1 s acceptance of the resolu­ tion last week. But we haven't made a dent on his Jerusalem position, and we are trying
Folder, "[Briefing Papers for] September 4, 1968 National Security Council Mtg," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • TO BE DRAWN INTO A DISCUSSION OF THE AGENDA FOR TOMORROW'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL I MEETING, ORDERED BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON TO DISCUSS THE SOVIET THREAT IN EASTERN EUROPE. I., 1 • PRESS SECRETARY GEORGE CHRISTIAN ASKED IF THE CALL
Folder, "[February 17, 1965 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting with General Eisenhower and Others]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • was not the proper moment to indicate any desire to return to conference 7 table. When I pressed him on Thai reaction he said, after con­ siderable pause for reflection, he thought he could bring Thai government to new conference, but only when we had continued
Folder, "[February 10, 1965 - 2:10 p.m. National Security Council Meeting]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • suggested that rather than announce the movement of these forces into the area we could informally give the press the list of U.S. forces which have been placed on alert for short notice movement to the Western Pacific. In response to the President's
Folder, "[December 21, 1965 Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • position. I think the cables miss the point-­ .as a committment to do nothing for a month. We can stop bombing, not say anything, and resume · when we choose. Would pressure mount to tell the press? President Yes, it would be brutal. But Christmas
Folder, "[January 26, 1966 Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Resumption of Bombing]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • show it to gov·ernmenta and not put it out to the .A.meric3.n press. Presid~'.1~: McNamu"': That's good. Let's do it tha.t way. When sho•ild we have this s .. evidence~ -r-~ . . - -­ rt ... \,_ _ ... .a.... LJ.J COPY Lvndon B. John
Folder, "[March 11, 1966 - 12:35 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • : General Walt got on well with him. keep eye on him. But a conniver. Hard to President: How do we get Lodge and Westmoreland to stop giving out Top Secret information? The press is saying they have to go to Saigon (for) Top Secret information and it's
Folder, "[December 23, 1967 - 8:50 p.m. Meeting with Pope Paul]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • the President gave to the Pope and to Cardinal Cicognani copies of a proposed press release dealing with thei conference. The Pope objected to a line near the end of the release which said "We will never surrender South Vietnam to aggression or attack." R
Folder, "May 4, 1968 - 4:30 p.m. Cabinet Room Meeting on Vietnam," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • - 100, 000 last 4 months April record month. I will talk to Ball about "Meet the Press". TOP SECRET . . ··., .­ i -­ ~ i '. ... - - - - - - - - ­:-; ,. "' =·-· ; I l - .d•-1/ ~ ~vt~) ~1~ vr/,, ;ti,_,:_ k ~. j j ~ ' j ! l
Folder, "[November-December 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHlNGTON January 20, 1968 NOTES OF THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH WOLFGANG WEYNEN AND WOLFGANG NOLTER OF DEUTSCHE PRESSE AGENTEUR OF GERMANY ON NOVEMBER 14, 1967 The President asked Weynen how things were going
Folder, "[November 24, 1963 - 3:00 p.m. Meeting with Ambassador Lodge and Advisors on Vietnam - McCone Memo]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • and quarreling of the. type that haa gone on in South Vietnam. I ' I I I The meeting waa followed by a statement to the press which was given out by Bundy to the e!!ect that we would pursue the policies agreed to in Honolulu adopted by the late President
Folder, "[December 17, 1965 - 9:41 a.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • : If the press asks us why no bombing, we answer we are increasing our effort in Laos and the South. Ball: Only 40 per cent of the missions are going on now. in the South. Concentrate President: Shouldn't we have someone moving throughout the world trying
Folder, "[Briefing Papers for National Security Council Meeting, May 10, 1966]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • Economic Issues: Mr. Robert Komer .,·· · 6. Guidance on Further Discussions and Press Handling of Ambassador Lodge's Visit I I_ .. t. I~ I '' ) I I: i•II f f1 ,. BECl'tS'i' ( r t ~·~~·~~~~~~~~~!'. .. . _... •1• i ,.-. 1,4 , i tJllili