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  • the Certification of the 24th Amendment to the Constitution. February 4, 1g64 26o 184 Remarks of Welcome at the \Vhite House to Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. February 12, 1g64 292 172 Remarks at the 12th Annual Presidential Prayer Breakfast February 5
  • in the wider in the United 3/18/ 72 1-3 States, Sir Alec Home was losing· in Britain on (date), nuclear test on the (date) Nikita with a string sphere the wheels a mixture of events into Soviet was displaced interest new hypotheses
  • purposes. Nor will we forget that balance-of-payments policies should serve the Nation's basic goals abroad and at home-not the reverse. Yet this recognition makes it no less neces.5aryto deal firmly and decisively with our balance-of-payments prob­ lem
  • ~r: Presi.C.e:i.t: On the arc hm;tin.g? ·wheele r: Pre sid~ n ':: t~eory that "a hit dog howls'' is that evidence that we Yes, Sir. What (do) prisoners tell you? Y/h
  • shelling of cities and B. not take advantage of the DMZ. General Wheeler: No sir. The President: or the DMZ? Can we restart the bombing easily if they violate the cities General Wheeler: MEEilNG NOTES cOP7P.1GH TEU ?lJblico~ Raqu11e5 Per-mi11ieA cf
  • industry, disregard human life? Suppose I say no, what else would you recommend? General Wheeler: Mining Haiphong. The President: Do you think this will involve the Chinese Communists and the Soviets? General Wheeler: No, Sir. The President: Are you
  • agreement, will this be an advantage militarily? General Abrams: Yes. The President: Will it compensate for lack of bombing up to the 19° parallel? General Abrams: Yes, sir, it will. We think they have shifted tactics from the battlefield
  • industry, disregard human life ? Suppose I say no, what else would you recommend? General Wheeler: Mining Haiphong . The President: Do you think this will involve the Chinese Communists and the Soviets? General Wheeler: No , Sir
  • will rn'"a terially affect the balance out there? . . :;.... 1.Vheel.::=: Yes, Sir. We should decrease by every pound we can to stop rnove:nent of supplies. In interdiction, you start at the beginning and go all the way thl"ough to finally stopping
  • bring home to American officials .. ~- It is not a losing proposition. ;\ Dick Helms: If you relieve a seige of a bastion, you get headlines. a. The President: He has worsf. problem with press than we do. General Westmoreland: .Khesanh. Clark
  • Wheeler: Yes sir, they remain under the operational control of their government. Secretary Mc:,Jamara: I am under the very clear impression that they have been told by their home governments to do everything possible to hold down their own casualties. Our
  • it with these reserves (referring to the 200, 000 requested.) General Wheeler: Yes, I believe so unless the enemy ups the ante. The President: Are we adeguately prepared for Khesanh? General Wheeler: Yes, sir. The President: Do you think that it will be there (Khesanh
  • - Would we send the 82nd Airborne and extend enlistments? I guess if we did that we would have to call more reserves to build up our strategic forces here at home. Secretary McNamara: I agree that we should look at this situation and prepare for any
  • , Buzz (General Wheeler), that time is limited when we can continue to keep the area above the 19th off limits without hurt? General Wheeler: rapidly. Yes sir. They are moving men and equipment south quite (CIA Director Helms gave paper
  • stability, our other problems in the world, our other problems at home; we must consider whether or not this thing is tieing us down so that we cannot do some of the other things we should be doing; and finally, we must consider the effects of our actions
  • ACTIVITIES • ... THZ CRIME comHTTED BY .ME AND MY MEN IS ENTIRELY INDELIBLE. I AND MY CREW HAVE PERPETRATED A GRAVE CRIMINAL ACT, BUT OUR PARENTS AND WIVES AND CH~LDREN AT HOME ARE ANXIOUSLY WAITING FOR US TO RETURN HOME SAFE. THEREFORE, WE ONLY HOPE 1
  • and commanders have been consulted. We recommend approval. GENERAL McCONNELL: I concur, Sir. GENERAL CHAPMAN: ADMIRAL MOORER: I concur. I concur. # # # EYES ONLY FOR THE PRESIDENT SERVICESEf ' , ... .. !. , ' .. • .!: .L:.I .1. .C,,i.;) VJ.'U
  • and with honor. I should like to add as a personal observation that I am very pleased that your lovely wife Marge has returned home from the hospital and I know th at eases your troubles. ESTABLISHING T RU TH OF T O N K IN GULF INCIDENTS My view of the purpose
  • .· .• " -­ from General Westmoreland's cable to General Wheeler 11 March 1968). I This would be roughly 30, 000 men? General Wheeler: Yes, sir·. The President: Was Westmoreland limited ih this? General Wheeler: Yes, we told him this was all that we had
  • TO T H E , UN AND LOOKED FORWARD TO R E S U L T S OF T H I S AFTERNOON'S S E C U R ITY COUNCIL S E S S IO N . • NEW DEMOCRATIC PA RTY LEA D ER TOMMY DOUGLAS ASKED I F PM IN c o n s u l t a t io n W IT H . t h e AMERICAN SEC RETA RY OF S T A T E MADE I T
  • . We know we cA.n tell SVN "we're coming home." Is that thn option we should take? What floVls from that. The neGotiafionR, the pause, all the other approacheR­ have all been explored. It mnkAs us look weak -- wi~ cup in ha.nd. We have tried. look
  • ~~a~ ~r. C.eg~2e ,..~!alJ:ing ~·rat~rs. No=t~ She was harasse~ Ko=aans to seize : should ~hink, -c.ha thi~g ~hat dis::ur~s what happened to t.hat s~ip that •·1e we:::-en 1 t ;::2:?areC. 1:0 move when a sir:-.i:!.ar si-::.~a'tion happened. I
  • magnificent morale at home. Read the following paragraphs from the Bunker-Abrams cable: "Maintaining the morale, fighting spirit and momentum of U.S. and ARVN forces is absolutely essential. Directives have gone out on the U.S. and GVN side to intensify our
  • 0 11 :r.5y ' .:.·e no: ,,;cin:; t:) -;Ji:1. the :·Ta::- , t :1 e~· :·rill no'; t; '0.L{ an:i the J.u..::.sir.:i.!'lG ca. :not col.·. rince them . P!'e:>i ·:ent an'l Don ' t ~ elieva the ,;o-,err::nent !1a ·1s tal.{eC.. a ny m er ~ talk
  • : September, 1969 Page Numbers: 76 pages By Judith Viorst B-4 Society-Home THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C., Wednesday, January .15, 1969 Chennault Dinner Delights GOP Guests By JEAN POWELL · Star Staff Writer , The "New Party" definitely
  • response to qu~stio~,r ..-~~d ,tn~l'~ .}. ·h.e newsm~n sho~d _have - 2 - stayed home and watched Kennedy on television to get the answers. Soliven also noted that Macapagal had been pushed into the background at the airport reception, and wondered
  • aa Alla1atant to the Pao1t1o and Par But Branch ot tbe Pol1t1oo-N111t&1'7 Division 1n OPKAV.Laat asatgrweut waa u OcmmendingOttioer ot a VS De11tr079r., home ported in Japan and operatiDs 1n the IPar But Area. Graduate ot l'letoher School ot La
  • A S K I N G . U S . i n t e r v e n t i o n AND T A K E O V E R O F COMMAND I F H E D I S A P P E A R E D , 1 ACKNOWLEDGED T H IS M IGHT BE A D E SIR A B L E TH IN G BU T LET MATTER D R O P . ( I WOULD A P P R E C I A T E A D V I C E ON A T T I T U D E
  • . They reg a rd t h e i r s u c c e s s i n d e t e r r in g us th u s f a r a s a m ajor a ch iev em en t and a m easure o f th e l i m i t s o f our w i l l t o s e e i t th ro u g h . At home we s h a l l soon have r i s i n g c a s u a lt y f ig u r e s