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

asked for the President 1 s . views of comments on the Hill that were critical of the Thieu-Ky attitude toward the South Vietnam elections. The President said some mistakes were being made, but that we might be surprised there were not more. Even in our
Vietnam

Folder, "[June 26, 1968 Meeting with Equity Managers)," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

of the post-Vietnam defense outlook mentioning the $60 billion ,,,, ,.,. ....,..,.,.-.. - 2 benchmark figures, but indicating he regarded it as a lower limit. (He must have had a good memo or briefing on that recently from DOD.) We had to remain first

Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 11:15 a.m. Detroit Riots - Clark, McNamara, Christopher, Fortas, Wilkins, Doar," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

care of the sniper incidents?" The President said he was "concerned about the charge that we cannot kill enough people in Vietnam, so we go out and shoot civilians in Detroit." General Throckmorton said, 11 Mr. President, we will only shoot under

Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 10 p.m. Detroit crisis - President's activities from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

into their wea.po:cs ·-.:.mil specificaliy approved by an o!~icer. The President asked, 11 Can the Guard take c:ire of the snip~r inc:dent..> ? !! The President said he was "concerned abc~t the charge that we can.net kill enough people in Vietnam, so \Ve go out

Folder, "THE HARVEST OF AMERICAN RACISM: The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 1 (Item)

hours club generally referred to as a b l ind pig. A party sponsored by a neighborhood civic 8 - group was in progress for two soldiers returning from Vietnam and two going away. The police raid was apparently based on faulty intelligence

Folder, "Summary Analysis: December 20, 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 3 (Item)

for manslaughter within t he same month . The first act of direct action was the stopping of deliv~ry trucks by youths tired of seeing jobs i n Negro afeas go to whites . · I n Detroit , the failure of a white newspaper to c arry news of a Negro Vietnam Veteran

Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 5, 11/22/63- 8/23/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / CALIFORNIA]," WHCF HU, Box 25 (Item)