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Folder, "August 8, 1967 - 9:02 a.m. Democratic Congressmen," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • effort. We hope to get more troops from the Australians, from the Koreans, and from the Thais. There is no stalemate. ratio is 10 to 1. We are moving along. The kill A Japanese businessman said that Hanoi is in bad shape. They are using 14-year old
Folder, "[January 20, 1966 - 5:50 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • to give me the season's schedule -- what the other teams will do - - and what we will do. Bob, you need to get from Westmoreland his plan for using our resources and what results - - what happens July and next January. What is estimate of NVN response
Folder, "[January 24, 1966 - 6:30 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Resumption of Bombing]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • to Moscow was an..."lounced before the pause, so he has no critical reason to hold us back. Presi~ :tvlcN1ma:::-a: Wedn~sday. Taylor: Bob, what do you recommend? I'd go sooner. Political delay can be damaging. Don't feel strongly Wednesday or Thursdayw
Folder, "March 26, 1968 - 3:15 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors (Item)
  • we last met we saw reasons for hope. We hoped then there would be slow but steady progress. Last night and today the picture is not so hopeful particularly in the country side. Dean Acheson summed up the majority feeling when he said that we can
Folder, "[March 26, 1968 - 3:15 p.m. Meeting with Special Advisory Group, Cabinet Room (added to Meeting Notes File on 4-6-82)]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • \ T !"t4NSP'&:RRSD TO HANDWR ITING l'!LE March 26, 1968 SUMMARY OF NOTES McGeorge Bundy: There is a very significant shift in our position. When we last met we saw reasons for hope. We hoped then there would be slow but steady progress. Last
Folder, "July 19, 1967 - 12:23 p.m. Cabinet Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • Sec. Freeman Sec. Trowbridge Sec. Wirtz Joe Califano Harry McPherson Douglass Cater Bob Fleming Tom Johnson ·! ~· .... ..... ..... j MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON July 19, 1967 7:30 p. m. MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM
Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • . On the state of the Nation, he said: is going to hell. " 11 1 just don't think this country MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON August 12, 1967 11:00 a. m. MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM: Bob Fleming Attached are notes on your conversation
  • Fleming, Bob
Folder, "November 21, 1967 - 8:30 a.m. VP, Rusk, McNamara, Bunker, Komer, Wheeler, Westmoreland, Helms, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • . Secretary McNamara said he would provide 500 additional officers for pacification work by February. Bob Komer said he was for 3551 officers. Secretary McNamara said the military is short of this type of man. He said there are officers in Vietnam who can
Folder, "September 26, 1967 - 1:15 p.m. Weekly luncheon - McNamara, Katzenbach, Helms, Rostow, Christian," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • on our ability to get talks going. We should try even if there is little hope for success. Even if you were to get them started and nothing mppened it would be good. We would step down some if secret talks began. I do not see a better channel
Folder, "August 22, 1968 - 9 p.m. Cabinet meeting, and staff members," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)
  • DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12356. Sec. 3.4 ~J fl-lfl' ­ By. . , NARA, DatcJi:tl3-ff The staff members attending the meeting were: Walt Rostow Charles Murphy Jim Jones Joe Califano John Macy Bare foot Sande rs Charles Zwick Art Okun Charles Maguire Bob Hardesty Harry
Folder, "October 23, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Rusk, McNamara, Helms, Rostow, Christian, Wheeler," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • . and recommend prudence and hope for a long-term settlement. THE PRESIDENT: Do you have a final draft of the letter to Kosygin? SECRETARY RUSK: it Saturday. MR. ROSTOW: This is a message dated Friday. Dobrynin received We knew about the ship before we knew
Folder, "December 5, 1967 - 6:02 p.m. Cambodia Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • 'Holder: W. Thomas-Johnson [1 of 7] t- ,ia. · 1 J; 1 , ;. ·· i ''" ~~- ·· CG~\' !
Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHIICGTON /) j/ I I MEz.m.ANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT From Bob Fleming Following are notes on your discussions at 6s25 p.m. Sept. 5 with the followings: Eric Sevareid CBS John Cauley, !ansas City Star Duff Thomas, UPI
  • Fleming, Bob
Folder, "February 11, 1968 - 4:30 p.m. Senior Foreign Policy Advisors - Rusk, McNamara, Wheeler, Clifford, Taylor," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • in the Citadel area. We hope to clean this up within a couple of days. The outskirts of the city are clear. --- In Da Nang, .there has been a hell of a scrap. are leaving. --- At Dalat there is continued sniping. Units of the NVA The situation is in hand
Folder, "February 12, 1968 - 1:45 p.m. Senior Foreign Policy Advisors meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • answers to them before a situation deveJ.ops and we didn't have them. I hope all of you see what has happened during the last two weeks. Westy said he could use troops one day last week. Today he comes in with an urgent request for them. I want to look
Folder, "March 19, 1968 - 1:01 p.m. Tuesday lunch with Foreign Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • , if in the last three to four months -- if you were to find that the same men either affirmed their attitude or reached a change of attitude. It would be of considerable help to you. The group of Dillon, Dean and the Republicans was a very good group. Bob Murphy
Folder, "[September 29, 1965 Luncheon Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • !:.ere was :-n.uch hope of C.oin;; bi.:siness with Bosch and also believeC. tllat we could not affo:r~ a 'Pcpula.:: f:-ont go7e::-nme=it in t:':e Dominican. R ept:blic. Vaugh..--i ~. csse::::ially ag:-eec! with }...ia!ln, but placed :r... o::re e:r
Folder, "October 18, 1967 - 7:30 p.m. Rusk, McNamara, Katzenbach, Rostow, Kissinger, Fortas, Taylor, Clifford," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • I would respond immediately. If they were to begin a major resupply we should deal with that immediately. THE PRESIDENT: Bob, how effective can you be in dealing out resupply? SECRETARY McNAMARA: Mr. President, I believe I can show beyond a shadow
Folder, "January 31, 1968 - 8:40 a.m. Pueblo 13 - Breakfast with Congressional Leaders & Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • President Park. Confidentially, we are in contact with the North Koreans. meet in two days. We e.."
Folder, "February 28, 1968 - 8:35 a.m. Gen. Wheeler"s trip to Vietnam discussion with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • cannot roam at will in the countryside. The worse situation on pacification is in I Corps north. The next worse is in I Corps southo The best pacification now is in II Corps. -- None of the pacification programs is satisfactory to us. Bob Komer said
Folder, "[Briefing Papers for Congressional Leadership Meeting, August 23, 1968]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • " will in long run prevail. 11 Senator Edward Kennedy "The entry of Russian troops in Cze c hoslovakia is a retrogression into an age we had all hope d was passed. I will not comment in detail, but these events are an affront to decency and especially
Folder, "[July 21-27, 1965 Meetings on Vietnam] [ADDED TO FILE, 6/28/85]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • . Resume saa IBeeting at 2:45pm BALL: \Ye can't win. Long protracted • 'fhe most we cnn hope for is messy conclusion. There remainR a great danger of intrusion by Chicorns. Problem of long war in US: l. ·Kot'ean experience waB gal 1 i.ng one
Folder, "[December 18, 1965 - 12:35 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Bombing Pause," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • to become commu."'list. Rusk~ Bob.1 President: McNamara: could. Ha. 1::; they ever applied pressure? President: Rusk: time. 1 During the first Yes. Mc~amara: . The . Soviets have not applied all the pressure they pa~se. - t hey said they didn't
Folder, "April 4, 1968 - 3:47 p.m. President's meeting with U Thant at the United Nations in New York City," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)
  • speech will generate a process for peace in Vietnam. THE PRESIDENT: That is encouraging. We tried to convince our people some move had to be made. We felt this was a step. I hope conditions will permit it to be a big step. If there is any recognition
Folder, "[June 7, 1968 - Meeting with Prime Minister Shearer of Jamaica]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
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Folder, "Speech, October 29, 1968," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • of the conflict. That chance •• that hope •• we cannot forego. We ·aould be misled - - and we are prepared for that contingency. We pray God it does not occur.. It should be clear to all of us that the new phase of negotiation• which will open on November Z
Folder, "[December 23, 1967 - 8:50 p.m. Meeting with Pope Paul]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • the President ot know that I have not only given counsel to South Vietnam but I have scolded the North for not making moves toward peace. PRESIDENT I think your statements have been fair and just l want to express the hope that with President Thieu
Folder, "[April 4, 1968 - 3:50 p.m. Meeting with U Thant]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • you always take. I welcome any recommendations you make publicly or privately. Your statement on TV was very good. I1m glad you saw fit to take some initiative and contact Hanoi. I don 1 t hold out much hope from this message, but it is something
Folder, "July 24, 1968 - 1:30 p.m. Tuesday lunch with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)
  • -52 flight costs $48, 000 from Guam. The bombs cost $31, 000. I hope the targets are worth it. CEE I i~O NOTES COPYRl6HTEO Publieatian Require• Permission of Cop1right Holder. W. lhoMaa Jotinloft l&P 81!CR !'I' - SANITIZED E.O. 12356. Sec
Folder, "[February 24, 1966 Meeting with Congressional Leaders]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • . Dastardly are t..1ie news stories coming from U.S. --'Philippines are hu..-nan mercenaries." ~Ia.rcos made strong statement -- courageous statement -- in which he came down firmly on side of U.S. In Ko~ea, Pak hopes to h:i.ve more troop3 there by first
Folder, "August 4, 1964 Leadership Breakfast [1964 Leadership Notes]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • night's action. These orders are already in being. RUSSELL: ls it daytime over there? MCNAMARA: Our attacks will be in daylight hours. RUSSELL: I hope you will keep going until they get the last one of them. We had a Formosan type resolution in the Middle
Folder, "[November 24, 1963 - 3:00 p.m. Meeting with Ambassador Lodge and Advisors on Vietnam - McCone Memo]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • . Ambaeaador Lodge reported that the change in government had been an improvement, that he wae hopeful over the outlook, that he expected a speedup of the war, he thought by February or March we would see marked progreae. Lodge stated that we were not involved
Folder, "October 23, 1967 - 5:36 p.m. Democratic Leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • , for the past several months, and particularly in the past month or two, there has been increasing sentiment here and abroad urging the United States to stop bombing in the hope or expectation that this unilateral act would bring us to the peace table. While
Folder, "February 2, 1968 - 4:30 p.m. Backgrounder with correspondents on Vietnam and the Pueblo," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • a long time to g,et the men back from the Pueblo? -CONfi'f>EM':E'Ui:L .• copy LBJ LIBDA L"\ii.RY The President: I am hopeful that we will get it back, but I do not want to raise false hopes about how long it will take. We are working. There has been
Folder, "Speech -- October 30, 1968 1:45 p.m.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • of And though I cannot tell you precisely ~hopeful year in South Vietnam and elsewhere: t1r.t ~ . rr sv,N events has occurred this . _.l~A- ~ ·~ .o;ti~ ~ -- · ·/':' - - ~ 6teady strengthen~ng of_th constitutional where a million men are now arms
Folder, "July 14, 1967 - 12:50 p.m. McNamara, Katzenbach, Wheeler, Clifford, Rostow, Johnson," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • on numbers. " The President continued: "We want to see what these people are willing to do. "I would hope that the South Vietnamese would a. b. Drop their draft age to 18. Put in an extra 65, 000 troops after the September elections Clark Clifford concluded
Folder, "September 19, 1967 - 5:55 p.m. McNamara, Katzenbach, Rostow, Christian," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • . The proposed U. N. speech by Ambassador Goldberg was discussed. The President said he hoped that the Ambassador would stick with what already has been said and Ho 1 s position as expressed in his released letter . The President said nothing good could come from
Folder, "[June 11, 1965 -11:25 a.m. Jack Valenti's Meeting with Apostolic Delegate]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • in the best interests of both the Vatican and the United States wait until we see how Article 19 would be resolved before concrete plans could be laid. Then, assuming all would be well on that front, the President would announce he would hope to speak
Folder, "[December 17, 1965 - 9:41 a.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • table and he'll pro­ duce the President. I'm willing to take any gamble Ol\ stopping the bombing if I think I've got some hope of something happening. We must evaluate this very carefully. You have no idea how much I've talked to the Fulbrights
Folder, "[November 11, 1968 - 3:00 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors and President-Elect Nixon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • for immediate purposes. - -- -·-- liaison ... . . __ _______ Mr. Nixon said that, despite observations in the press, he had made no decisions on his Cabinet. He hopes to have his Cabinet appointed by December 5. He would naturally like to have someone keep