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Bromley Smith, Executive Secretary, Nati ona l Security Council
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Carl Hayden (.A rizona)
Mike Mansfield (Mont. )
Hubert Humphrey (Minn. )
J. W. Fulbright {Ark
- of the statement t o be issued from th e White House
ann oun cing the reprisal alr strikes in Nor th Vietnam .
Why c annot we handle this matter th rough the United Nations ?
Senator Mansfield:
Can't the Geneva powers act?
The President:
This cannot be done
- or Mansfield: Pleas e d to hear the mildly encouraging report of the
Vice President. What is the monthly infiltration rate of North Vietnamese ?
The Vice P r esident : He had not asked this question in Saigon . Our team
in South Vietnam supports the bombing
- for a special r e port from G en e ral W es tmoreland on
Senator Mansfield's alle gations conc e rning drinking and irr egular activities of
o ur for ce s .
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Ambassador Lodge praised
- it as a choice between Israel
and Vietnam and believe we ought to withd raw from Vietnam. He told
Secretary Rusk to let Senator Mansfield know that this kind of music in
the Senate is just what Kosygin wants to hear.
Secretary Rusk before leaving the meeting
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that we should keep the bases.
The President n oted that Senator Man sfield was going to Japan
and other Far East points to make l ectur es . He asked for one page
memos which would list some of the things he might discuss with Senator
Mansfield before
- Goldberg: If we took an initiative, the Security Council would
i1ounde r in a state of disagreement.
The President: In the event chis happened , would we be ahead oi where we
now are? Senator Mansfield would probably say, yes , we would be; but t::te
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Senator Mansfield:
The North Vietnamese attack has opened many eyes . We
are not now in a penny ante game. It appears that the local populous in South
Vietnam is not behind us, else the Viet Cong could not have
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Douglass Cater
Bromley Smith
Larry 01Brien
Chester Cooper
Congreaaional Leaders :
S enator Dirksen
S enator Mansfield
Speaker McCorma.ck
Representative Gerald F ord
SERVlet: ~El
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Bank is an example of their attitud e . Henceforth, they should participate in
decisions in the Bank on the bas is of their financial participation.
The President then turned the discuss ion to Senator Mansfield's conce rn that
the United Nations
- Mansfield no longer is urging a major
reduc,tion in th e lev e l of U. S . forces in Europe .
Secretary Rusk: Director Helms should call to gether an interdepartmental
group to write a coordinated estimate of the change i n th e thr eat to NATO
brought