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  • :20 and reviewed the actions that have been announced to you in the White House statement . The Council al:.t hori zed the issua."lce of the statement and the President reque5ted the State Department cffici.al s and the Defense Department officials
  • agencies and our Embassy in Saigon were developing some proposals for non- militar y actions in Vietnam . Secretary Vance reported that VC actions during the past week declined somewhat - - except for the dramatic bombing of the E mbassy . The Department
  • with the Germans, we should go no lower than $675 million . We should do all we can to hold them to the $750 million foreign exchange offset. Under Secretary Katzenbach : The State Department is working on a project for the next Administration which deals
  • be to lose sight of our objective which is to help the South Vietnamese overcome aggression . Secretary McNamara said that Ambassador Taylor , the Joint Chiefs and the Department of Defense recommended a retaliatory strike today at day­ light. He said we
  • by Foreign Minister Spaak, the text of which the State Department is to obtain (copy attached). 1. France -- The difficulties we are encountering with France in NATO are limited to the military field. We should press France to support NATO in all other fields
  • but this may not be s o. We should look again at our programs and examine all ideas without thinking whether or not they can be done without increasing our expenditures . {8) The Defense Department i s studying several new military recommendations made
  • should try to get adva.Ace amhority so that we do not have to go back to the OAS in the event of another action by Castro. In response to Mr . Bundy's question, Mr. Chayes. aa ~e State Depart· m.ent Legal Adviser, pointed out the legal di!ferenc:es
  • required to undertake actions against No rth Vietnam . f!tllS.., I.lot . 1:,~~(.. ~ t·~3·o.l... gJ!:CREl --­ -SE"CREI - - 2 ­ Secretary McNamara said that each Department and Agency concurs with the recommendations which fall in its area
  • ,(. c I ( Department of State f A"B ~ tel' SECRET OfAIGE TO fl 03923 5 7 Origin ACTION: ~£ Amembassy HJSCOW PRIORITY 2138 IDB fm 1 6 •u PH '65 EXDIS Following account Ambassador Thompson conversation with Dobrynin, a.m., February 7
  • been sent to 34 foreign governments . Further details are contained in a State Department memorandum attached.) The reaction from th e other side is not what it was last May when Hanoi rejected our note, Soviet Foreign Minist er Gromyko said the note
  • Secretary William P. Bundy, Assistant S ecretary for Far Eastern Affairs P hillip Talbot, Assistant: Secretary fo r Near Easte1·n Affa irs USIA Ca rl T . Rowan , Di r ecto r WHITE HO USE M c G E:o r ge Bundy J ack Valenti R o ·bert Korn e r Bromley Smith
  • , Deputy Assis t ant Secretary for Far Easter n Affairs TRE.ASURY C . Douglas Dillon , Secr etary USIA Carol T . Rov:.:n ~ Di rector WHITE EOUSE M c G co :!:g0 Dundy G eo r g1..: Rc :;dy Bill Moyci-s 0 Dromlcy Smith Douglass C a ter Horace Busby Jack
  • FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY SUMMARY NOTES OF 554th NSC MEETING August 5, 1965; 6:00 P.M. Vietnam Secretary Rusk: Reported to the President on his recent meeting with the House Foreign Affairs Committee. For the present, there is good support in the committee. Secretary
  • . Ball, Under Secretary William P . Bundy, Assistant S ecretary for Far Eastern Affairs Llewellyn Thomp son , Ambassador - at-Large TREASURY C. Douglas Dillon , Secretary .USIA Carl 1' . Rowan, Director WHI TE lIOliSE ?vfcG .-·o~.;c SERVICESET Bu!1d
  • . Ball, Under Secreta ry Llewellyn E . Thompson, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Politica l Affairs William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affair s H enry Cabot Lodge , Ambassador to Vietnam TREASURY Henry H. F owle r, Secretary USIA C
  • , A ssistan.t to the Chairmat1 STATE G eorge Ball, Act ing S ecretary William Bundy, Pssistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affait:s Phillip s Talbot, Assistant S ecr etar y for N ear Eastern and South i\ sian Affairs l ~...\~........-. 2-) TREASURY Douglas
  • is that, as was the case in 1961 and 1963 and 1965, we have not found the formula , the catalyst , for training and inspirin~ them into effective action. 2 . Recommended actions. In such an umpromising state of affairs , what should we do? We must continue to press