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Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 47, October 21-24, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 24 (Item)
  • a conversation in Danang two years ago when a U.S. lieu­ tenant in the special forces said: "After Indochina we also will have our Algeria. It will be Latin America." The French distort our global experience to suit their own. As Karl Marx said: "Men make
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 1, Nov. 1963 - Feb. 1964 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • ' : ·· ............ ·'.·:_; , \~_!_;:: ....· :~ ·'. A FEW WORDS WITH DE GAUq.E ALONE IN ·wH ICH I MERELY MENTIONE~ .:.:.. \~.·;:l ':C~ AT I HAD'- DISCUSSED THE CHINESE MATTER WITH COUVE. · · . . -, -:-.:~· :~ ·1llE CONVERSATiON HENT NO . FURTHER. LATER ON IN. CONVERSATIONS · , ?,'~. ~1·! I TH:. J:OXE J
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 18, January 1 - 14, 1967 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 12 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • Afri c a n development. We intend to seek special legislative authorit y to support the African Development Bank. We are c ont inuing conversations with IBRD, whose top management has i ndicated a strong interest in strengthening the Bank 1 s leadership
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 18, January 1 - 14, 1967 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 12 [1 of 2] (Item)
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 16, December 1 - 13, 1966 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 11 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • for consultations in The occasion n 1ay be a meeting of the Supreme Soviet. If you approve a Pen Pal letter, it would be helpful to let Dobrynin see it when transmitted, before his return. 3. If you prefer no letter, a Thompson-Dobrynin conversation along
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 19, January 19 - February 4, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • the dust Douglas Dillon has just telephone{ to say that he has the flu. I told him you might wish to call him in the nex t few days, and he said the operators w
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 8, January 1 - February 28, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • Oeo~so Ball to answer Adlal'e memorandum ot February 17 (Tab A} and hor• ta my own euggoatlon as to what you might eay to him 1f you wlah to telephone blm. ta the curreat eltoatlon. I do not tblnk auch a phone call l• urge11t. 1. Stevenson saggeeta
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 2, March 1-31, 1964 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • : ) The attached papers cover the Zanzibar problem and Dea.n Rusk and I / would like to talk with you about them on the telephone at your conveni~ )' (.l,N....; (: 1 ence on Monday. The one question which you may wish to decide today \ (. o-~, vd is whether you
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 9, March - April 14, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
  • conference todci:y. I also had very brief phone conversations with Frankel and Hightower from which nothing interesting developed. March 18. 1965 MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT SUBJECT-; Telephone aervlce at tbe .R anch 1. You have previously lodlcated both
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 18, January 1 - 14, 1967 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 12 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • January 13, 1967 MEMORANDUM /!fl -W To: The President The White House From: Orville L. Freeman Secretary of Agriculture Subject: Public Law 480 - India - .Food for Freedom Financing This is to follow up our conversations re financing the Food
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 18, January 1-18, 1966," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • , 1/30/95, tate Dept. UUt12et;le, By-.oJ.IQ'---' NARA,Date ,~- ,-,-1 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Tuesday, January 18, 1966 12:40 P. M. MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT This is Gronouski 1 s flash report of his conversation with Foreign Minister Rapacki
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 21, February 12- 28, 1967 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 13 (Item)
  • of these conversations is: .. CONFIBEH'fIAL CQNFII>ENIIAL - 3 - A. The Argentine. and Chilean Foreign Ministers commented favorably on a draft "Annotated Agenda" that we provided in an attempt to get the discussion started but noted that the specifics had
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 19, January 15 - 31, 1967 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 12 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • The scenario for the day (Thursday, Janua ry 19) looks like this: Noon Full Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkim meets to confirm appointment. Between noon and 1:00 p. m. -- Milton Eisenhower telephones Line informing him. of final decision
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 17, November 20 - December 31, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 5 (Item)
  • ~: ; ._~ . ;·_·,·~"~::· ... :· .'"'.~ :to note ~ that ·.in a JtUle 1965 '.·conversation vi'th ·a US .official; Braga. . r~- · :::,,·~ ..": ''\.~· .~ . -,. :.0: __,~7.·~
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 29, May 25-31, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 16 (Item)
  • if this were called for. According to Diem, Ky considers that the role as head of the Armed Forces is vitally important and he hoped Thieu would come to see it this way. Diem said that following these two conversations he was persuaded that personal relations
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 20, February 1- 11, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 13 (Item)
  • .~MENACE.}: THESE.__.AHE . ONLY A-- FE1' _SELECTIONS FROM· THE !.IRADES 1 HAVE HAD, AL~AYS IN PRIVATE. CONVERSATION. I HAVE ' SI\/EN DAVID AND CHET ·A : FULLER . ACC0Ut'JT OF WHAT HE HAS SAID. HE DESCRIBED -IO -ME THE STATE OF ECONOMIC -WARFARE BET~EEN
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 10, August 1-11 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 9 (Item)
  • CONVERSATION ON HOW TO GET HANOI TO CONFERENCE PAGE 3 RUOKRW 185 S--! C N t ·T TABLE, MICHALOWSKI AGAIN SUGGESTED THAT VE ACCEPT •tN PRIN­ CIPLE" HANOI'S FOUR POINTS, -ND IN THIS CONTEXT STOP 80M8ING, INDICAT£ INTENTION TO ULTIMATELY WI ·1'MDRAV T~OOPS FftOM
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 14, September 1 - 22, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
  • plans for this weekend. If South Asia does not flare up badly, I would hope to take Mary to Martha's Vineyard early Friday and bring her back Tuesday morning. A friend has offered us the use of an isolated but telephone-equipped cottage there, and we
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 48, October 25-31, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 24 (Item)
  • before delivery lo Telecommunications Operations Division 4-. \ ----~- ·--- TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS DIVISION WORK COPY S ECR±:T/NODIS M.:iurer's conversations and therefore press of those matters . you think with the Nr..,rth
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 35, July 16-24, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 19 (Item)
  • with Egypt (where there is an international border rather than an armistice line) would be simpler • .Incidentally I agreed with Eban not to giv~ any . ,.,/ circulatio~ to our conversation ?Jld I should therefore be grateful· if you would restrict knowledge
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 5, June 1-30, 1964," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • deecribea Novlkov aa a "tough baby," tremendously ambitious, not very popular, who might push his luck too far and head for a dramatic fall • . Therefore, he auggeats that your conversation with him be k,pt general and lnnocuou1. Ae the State Department
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 20, February 1- 11, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 13 (Item)
  • immediately wired him and told him what he quoted me as saying bore no relationship to what I had said. Bob Pierpont, who was a party to the conversation, confirmed my side of the account. Breslin wired back and said he was sorry that he had, indeed
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 10, April 15 - May 31, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
  • . 12958, Sec. 3. 1/30195, S te ~ Bromley Smith THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON May 22, 1965 r VJ MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT I telephoned Bundy to ask him to rush his promised telegram so that it would be available during your Z p. m. meeting. Bundy
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 35, July 16-24, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 19 (Item)
  • reports a conversation between Ambassador Bunker an·d Thieu. The latter expressed the view that the new government elected in September would face extremely important problems in its first six months, not only in the fields of nation building
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 36, July 25-31, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 20 (Item)
  • Communist problems and anti-Communist improvement to the activities of our Vietnam Station. - 9 - Thursday, July 27. 1967 -- 3:15 p. m. Mr. p,re sident: This is merely to report a telephone call from Jack Irwin: He briefed Gov. Reagan. Reagan eald
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 2, March 1-31, 1964 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • you do and do not wish discussed; you have the usual problem that, as qften as not -- at least in my three years of exposure -- you cannot be sure ahead of time what the principal topic of conversation is going to be. You can tell generally
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 7, October 1 - December 31, 1964 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • Dean Rusk telephoned to re-e.mpba:sbe hls strong recommendation that you really ahoald spend a few mlDutes with Bowles. I have done my beat with. Bowles and wlth the Department to explahl how buay you are, but we are dealing here wUh a former Under
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 34, July 11-15, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 19 (Item)
  • ! the conversation between Kleelnger and Barze! (who manages the CDU in Parliament), the following principles were established for presenting the security aspects of the budget cttts and acting on them: ...... Oerman.y's security system ls absolutely dependent upon
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 16, October 15 - November 19, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 5 (Item)
  • , Birrenbach telephoned an old friend at Harvard to report that he had come to Washington resigned to discuss consultative machinery but concluded from his private conversations around town that the Germans would be able to get hardware~ When I asked whether
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 24, March 16 - 31, 1967 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 14 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • these days. Max Frankel, The New York Times. telephoned to ask if we planned to reveal more .or our secret contact ~ looking towards peace. He said he would be delighted to be the channel !or the revelation. I said that at the moment we took the":. ~lew·:'t
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 42, September 15-20, 1967 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 22 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • , Telephone, Pioneer 1-1234 Harry F. Guggenheim, President and Editor in Chief Bill D. Moyers, Publisher Dear Walt: OK, let's compromi se . Why don't you bring up to date~ in the present context, the Fort Bragg speech you -~ delivered in 1961. Leeds 1s
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 12, July, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
  • in conversations alread, reported. 011 Wednesday, July 7, I had my picture taken (or the 0 .March o( Time'' at the r equeat of the P reaa Office, and I talked to Phil Potter very brlefiy ou Vietnam. Tho· Coavereatio11 was entirely routine becauae it came before
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 26, April 16-30, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 15 (Item)
  • recently written me on textiles. (I have already talked to them on the telephone.) Their letters are at Tab B; I don't think you need to bother with them -- the line has not changed since the Con­ gressmen's session with you. My proposed reply
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 14, October 1 - 31, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 11 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • eting he dodged my repeated efiorts to commit him to take the job. and ended up by .s aying that he would like to talk to· you about the political aspect affectin.g the Latin American community. I told him I would report to you on the conversation
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 44, October 1-9, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 23 (Item)
  • Conversation Henry Kissinger telephoned me at home on Saturday evening,. , October 7, 1967, at about 6:40 p. m. He said he had tried but failed to 11 get Ben Read, and he did not wish to call Sec. Rusk. Therefore, he called me. · T'. j" Kissinger reported
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 31, June 13-20, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 17 (Item)
  • : Claiborne Pell came in at 6:00 tonight with the attached letter and memorandum o! conversation for you. We've known one another a long time. but he began by saying quite formally ·t hat, as a Senator. he would like to ask for an interview with you.. He said
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 7, October 1 - December 31, 1964 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • sent ia your·l'l&l'ne after our conversation thia morning: - - ,-qt:J.Ote attached telegram A and tele11ram B / TQP SECR~T (12/28/64) (McG / Pros and Cons of a reprisal raid against North Vietnamese/ barracks at Vit Thu Lu (Target 36) I
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 8, July 1-15 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 9 (Item)
  • , will enter lato operation durlag Ile fir:at week · " of Auguat. 'Pre•ident Leoni has indicated aa interest la imaagurating the ,n ew ·s ervice with a Pre• lden.tial telephone conversation. Aa a gesmre of cordiality and goodwill. your agreeing to do so wOQld
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 38, August 11-17, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 21 (Item)
  • or at least not as strong an enemy as he seemed to indicate he was in his last-minute treaty wi~h Nasser. It is interesting again that the feeling on the current disposition of Nas3er is also not unanimous~ On this score, in conversations with public relations
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 20, February 5 - 28, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • . In the light oi this direct message, I thoulJllt you might wish to send General Eisenhower a short note and I attach a possible ·draft. McG. B. Dear General Eisenhower: I have Juat been informed of your conversation with Andy Ooodpaater about Haaton