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- and A and H i s t o r i c a l Background
Paper on Vietnam
I a tta c h two documents prepared by p e o p le in
Bob M anning's and my o f f i c e s :
a Q and A paper on p o lic y
toward South Vietnam and an h i s t o r i c a l background paper
s e t t i n g fo
- no
friend needlessly fear— and no foe vainly
hope— that this is a nation divided in this
election year. Our free elections— our fiJl
and free debate— are America’s strength, not
America’s weakness.
There are no parties and there is no parti
sanship when
- in the hopes that this might be an isolated or unca.lcula.ted action.
There was local defensive fire. The United States was not clrn"·n into
hasty response.
Our hopes that this was an isolated incident did not last long-...\t
2 :35 p.m. Greenwich meridian time
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am s u re t h a t you w i l l a g re e , th e s e a tta c k s c o u ld
n o t go unansw ered.
The re sp o n se we a re making i s ,
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lim it e d and f i t t i n g .
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I hope t h a t w i l l
how ever*
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make c le a r to N o rth
- IDENTALLY HE ALSO
HOPES TO GET KHANH'S APPROVAL TO SEND A GOOD AMB TH E R E .
TIM E DID NOT PERM IT JOHNSON TO COMMENT TO QUAT ON PROPOSAL
AND MATTER WAS L E F T FOR LA TER D ISC U SSIO N S.
QUAT IS UNDOUBTEDLY CONVINCED THAT GVN COULD AND SHOULD DO MORE
- AND A DISP LA Y OF I N I T I A T I V E . ALL WE GOT
FROM KHANH WAS THE STATEMENT THAT HE WOULD REFLECT ON OUR
SUGG ESTIO NS. HE SAYS THAT HE HOPES TO REAPPEAR IN SAIGON W IT H IN
A FEW d a y s a n d TO GET TH IN G S IN ORDER THERE BY THE END OF
THE WEEK
- n in o u r a c tiv itie s In. th e fo rm e r
In d o c h in e se p e n in s u la is th e v ag u e hope
t h a t a la rg e e n o u g h m ilita r y b u ild u p
a n d a fo rc e fu l e n o u g h t h r e a t to ex p a n d
th e w a r w ill c a u se R e d C h
- a p re s s conference American
hopes " t h a t we would see some o th e r f la g s " in South Vietnam and " t h a t we would a l l
u n it e in an attempt to sto p the spread o f . . . . Communism in th a t p a rt o f the w o rld ."
Sin c e th a t tim e
- hope t h a t i t v a s r o t a
p o l i t i c a l maneuver.
C ongrassuan Z n b lo ck i o f H isco r.sin a g re e d t h a t th e P r e s i d e n t
had t h a pow er, b u t th o u g h t i t incumbent on C onsreos t o ccniply v i t h
h i s r e q u e s t f o
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b e y o n d o u r own b o r d e r s .
For th is
to N orth V ietn a m ese p r o v o c a tio n
lim ited
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th e hope th a t
th e d a n g ers w h ich
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- today.
But this committee and the Government we hope will continue long
after you and I
gone and there will be crises in the future and I
think it will be helpful to future Senators and future Secretaries of
State and even future Presidents if we review
