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- Vietnam
- LBJ ASKS FOR SUMMARY ON PANAMA, CYPRUS, VIETNAM, T-39 AIRPLANE LOST OVER EAST GERMANY; PRESS LEAKS FROM UK
- Vietnam
- UNIDENTIFIED MALE (ROBERT KOMER?) TELLS BOOZER HE IS TRYING TO CATCH UP ON PAPERWORK TO BE SENT TO LBJ, ASKS BOOZER IF LBJ HAS RECEIVED DRAFT NSAM ON APPOINTMENT OF VIETNAM CIVIL DIRECTOR; BOOZER DISCUSSES OTHER MEMOS, SAYS SHE WILL CHECK LBJ'S DESK
- rapidly at that time; then much
connection between Libya and the Arab-Israeli problem.
Of course,
the Six Day War didn't happen until after I had switched over to
Vietnam, so what Libya did in that connection I don't know.
They
broke relations with us
- Vietnam
- ; differences between Walt Rostow and McGeorge Bundy; Komer taking charge of Vietnam issues as Special Assistant to the President; the quasi-military character of “the other war” in Vietnam vs. pacification; unifying the management of the war; using the term
- important as to whether we would or would not.
K:
That was a major issue right from the end of the three week war to
the time when I switched over to being a Vietnam hand--at which
time I laid down all my other briefs at the President's express
request.
He
- Vietnam
- Assistant for National Security Affairs and the process of funding a replacement; Bromley Smith; bombing halt; Komer starting work as Special Assistant for the Other War in Vietnam; Rostow’s appointment to replace McGeorge Bundy; balancing pacification
- , "I'm going to make you my man on the other war in
Vietnam."
But in the period before [this]
I guess my service with
President Johnson falls very easily into these two groups:
my service
in the Bundy office and then gratefully as Bundy's acting
- Vietnam
- opinions to negotiate better politically; summarizing State Department briefings on foreign visitors for LBJ; problems between India and Pakistan; getting involved with Vietnam; the December1965 37-day bombing halt; George Ball and the Cyprus situation; LBJ
- .
The first is Italy, Greece
and Turkey,
with Cyprus and the Sudan as possible add-ons.
The
second is Korea, Japan, Formosa
and the Philippines,
with Hong
Kong, Vietnam and Thailand as possible a_dd-ons.
Let me take them
in order.
--
In Italy, the mission
