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  • Vietnam
  • DALEY SAYS RFK WILL MEET WITH CLARK CLIFFORD TOMORROW ON VIETNAM POLICY, DISCUSSES HIS TALK WITH RFK ABOUT EFFECT OF POSSIBLE RFK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY ON DEMOCRATIC PARTY, DIFFICULTY IN DEFEATING PRESIDENT AT CONVENTION; DALEY EXPRESSES SUPPORT
  • Vietnam
  • EXTENSION OF EARLE WHEELER AS JCS CHAIRMAN FOR A YEAR; OTHER CHANGES IN MILITARY LEADERSHIP, INCLUDING WILLIAM WESTMORELAND AS ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF AND CREIGHTON ABRAMS AS HIS SUCCESSOR; RFK CAMPAIGN; SHIFT OF SENTIMENT ON VIETNAM BY DOD CIVILIAN
  • Vietnam
  • O'BRIEN REPORTS ON HIS MEETING WITH RFK AND THEIR DISCUSSION OF MODEL CITIES, RFK'S PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS, VIETNAM; LBJ DISCUSSES RECENT PUBLIC STATEMENTS BY RFK, ABRAHAM RIBICOFF CRITICIZING LBJ, SAYS HE DOES NOT BELIEVE RFK COULD DEFEAT HIM
  • Vietnam
  • LBJ READS PART OF SPEECH ON VIETNAM BOMBING HE WILL MAKE AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION; PLANS FOR LBJ, LADY BIRD JOHNSON TO ATTEND CONVENTION; POSSIBLE NEED FOR FEDERAL TROOPS TO CONTROL DEMONSTRATORS; EFFORTS TO DRAFT LBJ OR EDWARD KENNEDY
  • Vietnam
  • DALEY'S TALK WITH RFK ABOUT RFK'S FUTURE, VIETNAM COMMISSION; LBJ SUGGESTS RFK MEET WITH CLARK CLIFFORD ON VIETNAM; RFK'S CRITICISM OF LACK OF SPENDING ON CITIES, KERNER COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY; LBJ'S MEETING WITH EDWARD
  • Vietnam
  • LBJ CONTINUES TO DISCUSS DALEY'S POSSIBLE RESPONSE TO RFK ON COMMISSION TO STUDY VIETNAM POLICY; HAWKS' CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY; GOLD CRISIS; EFFECT OF US POLITICAL DIVISIVENESS ON PEACE EFFORTS; POSSIBLE RFK MEETING WITH CLARK CLIFFORD
  • Vietnam
  • DISCUSSION OF LBJ, LADY BIRD JOHNSON ATTENDING DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION; LBJ'S EFFORTS TO REACH PEACE AGREEMENT IN VIETNAM, HIS CONCERNS ABOUT VIETNAM PLATFORM PLANK AND THAT POLITICAL DISAGREEMENTS WILL AFFECT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
  • Vietnam
  • CHRISTMAS GREETINGS; LBJ DISCUSSES NEED TO HOLD DOWN FEDERAL BUDGET TO AVOID TAX INCREASE; DALEY EMPHASIZES NEED TO INCREASE JOBS; PROTESTERS AT LBJ RANCH; SARGENT SHRIVER'S POSSIBLE RESIGNATION AS OEO DIRECTOR; POVERTY, VIETNAM BUDGET; RFK; DNC
  • Vietnam
  • WILLIAM WESTMORELAND AS POSSIBLE AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH VIETNAM; LBJ EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT ABRAHAM RIBICOFF'S HEARINGS ON CITIES, POSSIBLE RIOTING; RFK AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICS; RICHARD DALEY'S CONCERNS ABOUT ILLINOIS DEMONSTRATIONS
  • Vietnam
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF ECONOMIC SITUATION, RISING INTEREST RATES; ADMINISTRATION OPPOSITION TO SUBMITTING TAX BILL; FEDERAL BUDGET, DEFICIT; INCREASED CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATIONS; VIETNAM EXPENDITURES; ECONOMIC CONTROLS; REOPENING WALKER AIR FORCE
  • Vietnam criticism
  • POSSIBLE COMMITTEE TO STUDY VIETNAM SITUATION; ROBERT WEAVER'S RESIGNATION FROM HUD AND POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF EDGAR KAISER AS HIS REPLACEMENT; CRITICISM IF NEGRO IS NOT APPOINTED TO POST; WHITNEY YOUNG; DALEY RECOMMENDS CLIFFORD CAMBELL
  • Vietnam
  • DISCUSSION OF RECENT POLL ON PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN; IMPORTANCE OF CRIME ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN; EFFECT OF CHICAGO RIOTS ON PUBLIC OPINION; EASTLAND ASKS ABOUT STATUS OF VIETNAM PEACE NEGOTIATIONS IN PARIS
  • Vietnam
  • CLIFFORD REPORTS ON CALL FROM MCGEORGE BUNDY ABOUT RFK, VIETNAM, BUNDY'S OFFER OF ASSISTANCE TO LBJ; JOHN LINDSAY'S CALL FOR WAR RESISTANCE; LBJ'S UPCOMING SPEECH; NEED FOR NEW PEACE PLAN BALANCED WITH MILITARY EFFORT; PERCEPTION OF LBJ AS WAR
  • Vietnam
  • WATSON SAYS RICHARD DALEY WILL SUPPORT LBJ'S NOMINATION AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; DRAFT EDWARD KENNEDY MOVEMENT IF HHH DOES NOT GET NOMINATION ON FIRST BALLOT; LBJ EXPRESSES SKEPTICISM ABOUT DRAFT LBJ EFFORT; VIETNAM PLATFORM PLANK; POSSIBLE VOTES
  • Vietnam
  • JONES ASKS HHH TO HAVE OTHERS LEAVE ROOM BEFORE LBJ TALKS; LBJ SAYS HE WILL NOT ATTEND CONVENTION TONIGHT BUT MAY COME LATER, OFFERS ADVICE ON HANDLING PRESS, RECOMMENDS HHH CONSIDER JOSEPH ALIOTO AS VP NOMINEE; VOTE TONIGHT ON VIETNAM PLATFORM
  • Vietnam criticism
  • DALEY'S TALK WITH RFK ABOUT RFK'S POSSIBLE CANDIDACY, COMMISSION ON VIETNAM POLICY; LBJ SAYS HE SHARES RFK'S CONCERNS ABOUT WAR, DISCUSSES PEACE EFFORTS, ENEMY LOSSES, GOLD CRISIS, CONGRESSIONAL INACTION ON CITIES; DALEY SAYS LBJ SHOULD TAKE
  • Vietnam
  • DALEY'S MEETING YESTERDAY WITH UNNAMED MAN AND THAT PERSON'S SUPPORT FOR LBJ'S VIETNAM POLICY AND FOR UNIFIED DEMOCRATIC TICKET; DALEY ASKS THAT APPOINTMENT OF OTTO KERNER TO JUDGESHIP BE SENT TO SENATE SO SAM SHAPIRO CAN BECOME GOV.
  • are pushing him on this thing of entering into the California primary. He doesn't want to do it if we can get some way of talking about, or some kind of a vehicle of an analysis or a review of this whole Vietnam thing. He says he 1 s not opposed
  • Vietnam
  • DALEY ENCOURAGES LBJ TO APPOINT COMMISSION TO STUDY VIETNAM POLICY, DISCUSSES CALL FROM RFK ABOUT HIS POLITICAL FUTURE; LBJ DISCUSSES HIS MEETING YESTERDAY WITH TED SORENSEN; POSSIBLE TROOP INCREASE; DALEY SUGGESTS LBJ INCLUDE WAR CRITICS
  • for a complete re- evaluation of what we have done in Vietnam and it amounted to an admission that we were changing our course and we were in error out there.' We told them we couldn't do..that because it would be a repudiation of all of our men, the President
  • Vietnam
  • MONETARY CRISIS; CLARK CLIFFORD'S MEETING WITH RFK TODAY; RFK'S DEMAND FOR REAPPRAISAL OF VIETNAM POLICY; DEAN ACHESON'S ADVICE TO LBJ; DALEY SUGGESTS LBJ APPOINT HIS OWN COMMITTEE TO STUDY POLICY; RFK'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY