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Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Monetary Issues, Vietnam, UN, 11/25/1968, Volume 5, Tab 76," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

plans for the arms talks . We should get started even if we handle the talks so as not to bind a successor. It is our hope that Mr. N ixon will agree to our going ahead and we have offered to have Bob Murphy as an obser ver on th e delegation. Secretary

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Congo; Cyprus; South Vietnam, 8/25/1964, Volume 3, Tab 23," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

. Re - negotiation would call for Greek concessions. If the treaty laps es, the 10, 000 Greek in Turkey lose their rights . Any deal by Makarios and the Cypriots with the USSR will move slowly. Makarios apparently hopes to delay any action until

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Situation in Vietnam, 2/8/1965, Volume 3, Tab 29," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

to the Russians in an effort t o explain why we had to retaliate as we did. Our hope is that they will understand why we acted as we did , at least to the extent of being annoyed by the North Vietnamese action. Mr. Ball informed the group that we had sent

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam, 8/5/1965, Volume 3, Tab 36" National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

military forces and limit the size of U. S . forces. Political fragility continues in South Vietn am. We hope that the political situation is at last settling down. Based on recent local elections, a national election held now would not go to Ho Chi Minh

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam, 5/10/1966, Volume 3, Tab 39," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

of the approval of the SEA TO treaty and of the August resolu tion. Secretary McNamara: Political events in Saigon are causing trouble in the military area. There are fewer Vi e tnamese casualti es . We hope that heavy pressure by U. S . forces will carry us ove r

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam, 1/29/1966, Volume 3, Tab 38," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

Of the United States the D.R.V. Governme."l.t and duction of to.r eign troops into not to pull out ot South prove this by actual cieeds. • Vietnam.. If the United States Vletnam, and he hoped the rt must end unconditior:ally_ r ca.lly respects the agree

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam, 6/11/1965, Volume 3, Tab 34," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

U. S. forces which will soon go to 70, 000. The present VC campaign w ill be terminated without serious losses . With more U . S . combat troo p s a nd more U. S. air power, the hope is that we will be able to push Hanoi into negotiations. General

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam/France/Germany, 5/22/1968, Volume 5, Tab 68," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

. The North Vietnamese came to Paris to negotiate seriously. They hope to erode support for the war in the United States by causing high U.S. casualties. They will fail in this . They will conclude that they cannot prevail militarily and will then seek

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Deployment of Additional U. S. Troops in Vietnam, 7/27/1965, Volume 3, Tab 35," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

offers them no prospect of an early victory . and no grounds for hope that they can simply outlast the US and (2) North Vietnam itself is under continuing and increasingly damagi ng punitive SEllVtCE SET -4GP. SECRET .. .. • . (J

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam, 2/10/1965, Volume 3, Tab 30," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

in this process. We believe that, in embo.rking on these tnctics, the Soviet leaders hoped to work Henoi be.ck to'Wtlrd c. middle position 1n the Sino·Soviet dispute, to discourage the US from broadening the war, and to IJEl.X'ticipate in the Commun.1st

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vice President Reports on his Vietnam Trip, 11/8/1967, Volume 4, Tab 60," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

countries visited, he sa id the acting head of Indonesia, General Suharto, and the Malaysian Prime Minister both told him that if the United States fails in Vietnam, all hope for a free Southeast Asia would be lost . In Malaysia the Prime Minister said

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Cutback in Nuclear Production; Secretary Rusk's Report on Vietnam; Asst. Secretary Bundy's Report on Laos, 4/22/1964, Volume 1, Tab 9," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

with the expenditure of a very small amount of mo11ey. Th e USIA in Vietnam _is now working on a joint basis with L~e Viet namese and it is hoped that progr ess will result from the joint effort. ) {7) Limitation of funds -- we may not be doing some things that we

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Peace offensive re Vietnam, 1/5/1966, Volume 3, Tab 37," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

ally in Vietnam . In fact , h e said h e h ad the will to do it but there was a lack of r esources which he hoped we might help provide . President Marcos suggested that the Phili ppines could supply considerable materi a l for our ope r atio ns

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] North Africa; Bombing of North Vietnam, 2/8/1967, Volume 4, Tab 50," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

at: a. The VC/NVA ca n no longer hope to win militarily in South Vie tnam , and b. Our air campai g n against North Vietnam plus our vigoro u s an d agressi ve gro und actions in South Vietnam have created this favorable militar y situatio n. 5. It is my bel

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam / POL, 6/17/1966, Volume 3, Tab 41," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

gnm ent . The Ame rican people have a feeling of impati e n ce a n d, over tirne, the y may demand a quick e nd to the war as the price for the ir continued support. Thi s restlessnes s is evident in the public op inion polls . Opinion ab r oad hope s

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Manila Conference, 10/15/1966, Volume 4, Tab 47," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

situation in Vietnam is better than he expected it to be. Military preparations are progressing in an entirely satisfactory way. Progress in pacification is less than he had hoped. More emphasis ne eds to be placed on pacification programs. The pacification

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Secretary McNamara's Mission to Vietnam; OAS Action on Venezuelan Arms Cache, 3/5/1964, Volume 1, Tab 4," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

reasury looked fairly fa vorably on a blacklis t operation. 11,' lth a n O.A.5 cover and no freezing of Jrree \\" orld as1eta in the U. s., the rhks of eetaliatlon would be m ana geable. !! there is 11 general discussion of the black list, I hope