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Westmoreland over the phone and received a number of cables from him.
Westmoreland reported the following:
- - The enemy apparently will start new attacks on the 10th.
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That is tonight our time. This is based on communications intelligence
- on these questions
in conjunction with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Walt Rostow: That is correct.
Clark Clifford: Paul Nitze and I started to work on this
Friday night. As you could understand, with the time
pressure we placed upon ourselves there still may need
- want you to consider and get
answers to me. Those questions are:
1. Why is it necessary to call up reserve units at this time?
a. To be ready for further reinforcement of Vietnam?
b. To be ready for other contingencies outside Vietnam?
c
- as of the time I lefto The RF and PF situation
c1 ·- -/is not entirely clear.
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-- The regular troops did take more casualties than the RF and
PF forceso
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-- We believe about 40, 000 enemy were killedo
cormt the number wounded and missing.
We cannot
- .
The President:
That may be true.
Clark Clifford: I hope we do not have to ask for a completely new program.
This is a bad time to do it. On one hand the military has said we had
quite a victory out there last week. On the other hand, they now say
- the New York State poll which shows
strong Jewish support.
Secretary Rusk:
We still have a good deal of time to work out a
formula on the Middle East. It is my feeling that we should put it
in the Security Council rather than in the General Assembly. We
do
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