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- HHH REPORTS ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES; IOWA, GEORGIA POLITICS; NIXON'S REMARKS ON VIETNAM; PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTION IN CAMPAIGN; CONGRESSIONAL RECESS, NOT ADJOURNMENT, TO SAVE MEDICARE BILL; ETHICS CHARGES AGAINST GOLDWATER, MILLER; BOBBY BAKER…
- SUCCESSFUL EVENT AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY YESTERDAY; RIGHT-WING CRITICISM OF LBJ ON DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, VIETNAM POLICY; LBJ DISCUSSES VIETNAM SITUATION, HIS PAST SUPPORT FOR DWIGHT EISENHOWER AND GEORGE HUMPHREY
- MCNAMARA REPORTS THAT LATEST INFORMATION INDICATES THAT 4 PT BOATS ARE ATTACKING 2 US DESTROYERS IN TONKIN GULF AND ATTACK APPEARS TO BE INTENTIONAL, TELLS LBJ THAT JCS IS DISCUSSING POSSIBLE RETALIATORY ACTION FOR HIS CONSIDERATION
- MCNAMARA GIVES LBJ REPORT ON PT BOATS' ATTACK ON US DESTROYERS IN TONKIN GULF, DISCUSSES POSSIBLE RETALIATORY ACTION, NEED TO MAKE PRESS STATEMENT; LBJ CAUTIONS ABOUT ACTING HASTILY WITHOUT ADEQUATE PROOF OF ATTACK; ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW WEAPONS…
- MCNAMARA READS PRESS STATEMENT ON ATTACK ON US DESTROYERS IN TONKIN GULF; LBJ ASKS ABOUT PLANS FOR MEETING OF MCNAMARA, RUSK, MCGEORGE BUNDY ON INCIDENT AND TIMING OF RELEASE OF MCNAMARA'S STATEMENT
- LBJ TELLS REEDY THAT RUSK, MCGEORGE BUNDY, MCNAMARA WILL BE MEETING WITH HIM AT 2:30P AND WILL HAVE PRESS STATEMENT AFTERWARDS
- UPDATE ON LATEST ALLEGED ATTACK IN TONKIN GULF; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT INTERFERENCE ON TELEPHONE LINES, EXPRESSES SKEPTICISM ABOUT ATTACK; MELVIN LAIRD'S CHARGE THAT FEDERAL WORKERS ARE USED FOR POLITICAL TASKS; TOM GATES' CRITICISM OF…
- LBJ TELLS STONE THAT HE DOES NOT WANT TO ACCEPT INVITATION TO APPEAR AT UPI EDITORS MEETING ALONG WITH GOLDWATER OR MILLER; DISCUSSION OF LATEST ALLEGED ATTACK IN TONKIN GULF; LBJ EXPRESSES SKEPTICISM ABOUT ATTACK; PRESS ENDORSEMENTS OF LBJ
- BUNDY REPORTS THAT BAD WEATHER IN TONKIN GULF MAY PREVENT FURTHER REPORTS ON ALLEGED ATTACK, ASKS IF LBJ WANTS TO MAKE PRESS STATEMENT TONIGHT OR TOMORROW MORNING; LBJ ASKS BUNDY TO MEET WITH HIM
- FOLLOWING HIS MEETING WITH EARLE WHEELER AND CYRUS VANCE, MCNAMARA REPORTS ON EVENTS IN TONKIN GULF AND RECOMMENDS THAT PREPARATIONS FOR RETALIATORY ATTACK IN CURRENT DAYLIGHT HOURS BE CANCELED, WH OR DOD ISSUE STATEMENT TOMORROW, PATROLS IN GULF…