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Folder, "January 27, 1968 - 1:25 p.m. National Alliance of businessmen luncheon," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

. at this time. The President is following a careful, cautious, diplomatic course. If that does not war k, we may have to look at some other military alternatives that are open to us. The President: I have had communications with Chairman Kosygin. In our

Folder, "September 26, 1967 - 5:46 p.m. Educators from Cambridge, Mass. small colleges and Universities," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

that the North Viet namese today are much more confident of victory than they were two months ago. Kosygin has asked them twice to negotiate. That is the reason why we asked Ambassador Thompson, our best man in Soviet affairs, to return to Moscow. The problem

Folder, "October 29, 1968 - 2:30 a.m. Meeting with the President's Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

McPherson George Christian Tom Johnson The President: I thought I'd review how this developed. On .June 5, I received a letter from Chairman Kosygin telling me that he and his colleagues had grounds to believe that a cessation of the born.bing

Folder, "[December 17, 1965 - 9:41 a.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

we are not doing enough to find peace. Take all this -- try to sell our enemies that we want peace. We owe this to the American people. We can't do this if we are dropping bombs on the enemy. (Like Kosygin in Hanoi.) .. Anything with bombs

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam Reprisals, 2/7/1965, Volume 3, Tab 28," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

to ask if the White House sees any connection w ith the events and Kosygin in Hanoi ? Q.. MR. REEDY: I am deferring a.11 com:nent et the present time . Q. At 9 o'clock or whatever time it broke up , the orders went out to carry out these r aids? MR

Folder, "[February 21, 1968 - 1:00 p.m. Meeting of Rusk, U Thant, Others on Vietnam (President Did Not Attend)]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

Dong. He describC!d the . risk to the United States for stopping the bo;nbing .::ls being limited and the alte1,1atives

Folder, "[February-April 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

role. On East-West Relations We are encouraged by the Kosygin reply on ABM. We want frank discussions and hope to avoid another step-up in the arms race. We must conclude a non-proliferation treaty. We understand that this is hard for some

Folder, "October 14, 1968 - 1:40 p.m. Foreign Policy Advisory Group meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

with the Soviets the question of Vietnam. The language to Kosygin read: ·. "Setting all political arguments aside, the simple fact is that the President could not maintain a cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam unless it were very promptly evident to him

Folder, "January 25, 1968 - 1:26 p.m. Pueblo 5 - Luncheon meeting - Rusk, McNamara, Katzenbach, Wheeler, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

would call on the President of the Security Council, give him a letter, and release the letter. The President: What do we do from there? Secretary Rusk: We've gone to Kosygin. We've gone to Sato. This will get the Secretary General in it. Indonesia, also

Folder, "[November 4, 1967 - 2:20 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

this week by the Communists and Kosygin who are beginning to draw the line between Hanoi and the NLF. Rusk admitted however, that he does not think Moscow, nor for that matter Peking, has enough horsepower to deliver Hanoi. The President asked if someone

Folder, "[November 7, 1968 Foreign Policy Meeting - Family Dining Room]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

: Hanoi might object to public meetings. Secretarv Clifford: We might have leverage to meet bilaterally with Hanoi - - not suck up to Saigon. Kosygin might help. General Taylor: We can't sit 70 days and let Saigon hold us up. We should start

Folder, "[February 17, 1965 - 10:00 a.m. Meeting with General Eisenhower and Others]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

comments from officials Soviet Embassy here that Kosygin taken completely by surprise at Pleiku attacks. He thought Sovs would confine their reactions to 'noise' and a bit more ink on American Embassy walls throughout the world. He thought Soviet hard

Folder, "October 14, 1968 - President's Meeting with Joint Chiefs on Vietnam," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

to believe. was similar to one used in a letter he had received from Chairman Kosygin earlier. Mr. Rostow said the full sentence in the Kosygin letter read: 11 "My colleagues and I think--and we have grounds to do so--that complete cessation by the United