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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
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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 .
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Secretary McNamara said that each Department and Agency concurs
with the recommendations which fall in its area
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- 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
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Dromlcy Smith
Douglass C a ter
Horace Busby
Jack
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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
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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
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- , 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