Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful disagreements within government over political and tactical methods of war from May 1963-November 1963; leaving government in 1965
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Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 1, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-forrestalm-19691103-1-79-47