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Telephone conversation # 13609, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 10/29/1968, 10:30AM (Item)
  • RUSK DISCUSSES ELLSWORTH BUNKER'S MEETING WITH NGUYEN VAN THIEU, NGUYEN CAO KY ON PEACE TALKS; THIEU'S INSISTENCE ON NEED FOR MORE TIME BEFORE JOINING TALKS; POSSIBLE DELAY IN BOMBING HALT; CYRUS VANCE'S REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAMESE REACTION; JOHN
Telephone conversation # 13606, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 10/28/1968, 10:45AM (Item)
  • LBJ'S UPCOMING MEETING WITH CREIGHTON ABRAMS; TIMING OF ORDERING BOMBING HALT, ANNOUNCING IT, AND BRIEFING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS; NEED TO GIVE NGUYEN VAN THIEU, ALLIES ADVANCE NOTICE; ELLSWORTH BUNKER'S MEETING WITH THIEU
Telephone conversation # 13702, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 11/1/1968, 11:38AM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF LBJ'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF BOMBING HALT, CANDIDATES' REACTIONS; CREIGHTON ABRAMS' STRATEGY; SOUTH VIETNAM'S RELUCTANCE TO JOIN PEACE TALKS FOLLOWING CONTACTS WITH NIXON'S ASSOCIATES; NGUYEN VAN THIEU'S DEMANDS; STATUS OF PRESIDENTIAL
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/3/1968 (Sunday) (Item)
  • South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu refuses Paris peace talks; LBJ not sleeping well; Johnsons, staff & guests to St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church and Trinity Lutheran Church services; Harry Middleton interviews candidates for LBJ Library
Folder, "[September 5, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • would draw up this order. The President asked how many were in that category - two or three. McNamara said two. ships in there. The other port, Haiphong, always has has Russian The Pr e sident said we should get a spe e ch worked up for Thieu and let
Folder, "[September 15, 1967 - 7:27 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • on that recommendation." ~~~~W~=~~----------------------~· The President asked what is happening in Vietnam. Rusk replied "we are getting·~Thieu and Ky working together now, and that is the primary concern. " The President said "we should get Bunker to get them to put
Telephone conversation # 13619, transcripts, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/31/1968, 6:28PM (Item)
  • it that way and I think it is important that it be that way now until after we get on the air with our television statement and explain it to all of the people. and until Bunker can explain it to Thieu. We do not know whether Thieu will issue a joint
Folder, "[September 6, 1967 - 11:09 a.m. Meeting with Vietnam Election Observers]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • . "They came in freely and they voted freely." He said the problem now is one of unification and he did not know if Thieu and Ky are up to it. They are schooled in the authoritarian tradition, Muskie said. James Antell, National Jaycee President, said