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  • move the 82nd Airborne to Vietnam. Secretary McNamara: This worries me. call up a National Guard division. This means we would have to The President: I read Wilbur Mills a couple ·of intelligence reports last night. It appears that he is getting weak
  • MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT lom FROM: Torn Johnson Attached are the notes of your Wednesday night meeting, in the Cabinet R oorn. (J)(JJ.;Jl/!j /4, 1, I 1 Those that attended were: Secretary of State Dean Rusk Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
  • night (in San Antonio, Texas), we have demonstrated that we are willing to stop the bombing if the halt would lead to prompt and productive discussions. ''If we had stopped the bombing along the DMZ, those guns would not be silent this morning
  • and General ·. .h •' ' . f Jf : Wheeler and Mr. Helms of the CIA, and Mr. Ros tow. I'm t t Ir I ------~--~~~~~~~~~~------~~~~--~--------~---~~--~~~~~i .. '' .· ; . i I· • I i -2­ " reading from -- I want to i·ead a brief background
  • the toughness of the times ahead. !he President read his speech which is scheduled for Saturday night at a Salute to the President in Washington. SECRETARY McNAMARA: Left before the speech was concluded because of another engagement. SECRETARY RUSK: Said he
  • military people feel it can be handled. The President said he had been assured by the Joint Chiefs that Khe Sanh could be defended. 3. On Korea, the President read Clark Clifford's statement to the Congressional leaders a day or two before, outlining
  • WITH THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHrP February 6, 1968 Breakfast In the Mans ion The President reviewed Vietnam and the Pueblo situation with the leader­ ship. He read the 6 :30 a. m. situation report and the CIA briefing on developments around the world
  • . All of them believe he is prepared to handle the situation in Vietnam. General Wheeler: I will read to you excerpts received at 4:18 this morn­ ing from General Westmoreland. "'~ ~- I c;·;c· --­~ \.;;._\.,,-,. ._ --< _::::::ZS :=·'')r:­ ICC4lC
  • as bluntly and as accurately as we could the consequences of inflation in developing countries. I might read the list of charges we made. Inflation 9 Inflation diverts investment productive uses and towards forms a hedge against inflation rather maximize
  • been reading about this coznmission from Kennedy. about it. We've started reading DALEY: Oh, yes. WATSON: I want to tell you what we know about it. Mel Elfrin, of Newsweek magazine, tells us he got his original tip from a freind of Ted
  • COP'ffmi.tiTED WITH HIS FOREIGN ADVISERS . AT THE Perm1ss1on of Cop)"t'ight ~hnson TUESDAY LUNCHEON March 19, 1968 In the Mans ion The President: Secretary Rusk: Dean, have you read the Reischauer letter? Yes, but it has been over taken by recent events
  • Johnson to read the four points of criticism by Senator Robert Byrd (West Virginia). The four items follow: 1. Poor intelligence. 2. Poor preparations for these recent attacks. 3. Underestimated Viet Cong morale and vitality. 4. Overestimated
  • to understand these things. But I do want to talk instead of fight. The President read a memo from a recent visitor to Hanoi who reported that there had been a hardening of Hanoi's position. The President also read a cable from Ambassador Bunker which said
  • about this letter. The President read and suggested changes in the proposed Kosygin letter. The text of that letter follows: Dear Mr. Chairman: I fully share the concern expressed in your letter of October 20 about the continued tense atmosphere
  • it and as you go along the harder it gets to climb the hill; you will have the neurotics who will drop out. You read about it every day in our country because we have a free press. They have them too. The young have to defend the country for us. It was left
  • intermediaries involved thus closing down the private channel. This private rebuff must be read in the light of Hanoi's recent public state­ ments. These have all been extremely negative on the subject of peace negotiations. Let me cite a few of the more
  • to make arrangements with the other side. can tell the other people you are ready to release ... '' Bunker The President then read the cable and reiterated that he does not believe we should overrule Bunker's recommendation. Rusk said it would be alright
  • of advising . The Pr es ident then turned to Panama and read the declaration which he sai d he would make this afternoon if the Council approved. He summarized the U . S. position on the Panama negotiations, i . e . , that we would not accept preconditions
  • o m e o f h e r p i c t u r e s a n d s o m e of h e r p r i z e d b o o k s . I read a l i t t l e b i t i n U n c le R e m u s t h a t D ic k R u s s e l l h a d g i v e n h e r , p r a c t i c a l l y a d e a d la n g u a g e now . I l i k e d t
  • at the White House; LBJ goes to office; Lady Bird tries to nap and reads script for Barbara Walter's interview; dinner party with friends; Lady Bird takes ladies through the tour she will give for Barbara Walters; John Gardner's resignation
  • ; late lunch; LBJ & Lady Bird take naps and read newspapers; LBJ goes for walk with Yuki and greets people outside the fence; Johnsons play bridge; helicopter back to the White House
  • . then you can read into that whatever you want. And There was .an assumption that if everything was working, inevitably it would affect people's thinking. But there was never that claim except in the process of interpretation. It's like any survey