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%I From President Johnson's news conference in 1965 as quoted in Charles
B. MacDonala's An Outline History of U.S. Policy Toward Vietnam
(Washi:igton, DC: The US Army Center of MIlitary History, 1978), p v,
2. Hn Cni Minh, Se ected Writings 1920-1969 (Hanoi. Foreign Languages
Publishing Hcuse, 1977), pp. 120-121,
K 3. MacDonald. pp. v. and vi.
4. US National Security Council Document, NSC 124/2, "%,S. Objectives
and Courses of Action With Respect to Southeast Asia," dated June 25,
1952, pp. 1-2.
5. US National Security Council Statement of Policy, NSC 5405, "U.S.
Objectives and Courses of Action With Respect to Southeast Asia,"
Dated January 16, 1954, pp, 3-4.
6. Public Papers of the Presidents of 1he U.S,: Dwight D. Eisenhower,
1957, "Special Message tc the Congress on Mutual Security Programs,"
May 21, 1957, p. 386.
MacDonald, p. 6.
S7.
8. US National Security Council Document, NSC64, "Report by the National
Security Council on the Position of the US with Respe-t to Indochina,"
dated February 27, 1950, p. 2.
9, The Senator Gravel Edition, The Pentagon Papers:, The Defense Department
History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam, Volume I (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1971), p.. 35, (hereafter Gravel Pentagon Pape"s),
10. Ibid.
11. US Department of State, "Statement of Extension of Military and Economic
Aid," May 8, 1950, Department of State Bulletin, May 22, 1950,
p., 821.
12. NSC 124/2, pp. 2-3.
13. Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S.. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953,
State of the Union Message, February 3, 1953, p, 5K.
"14. Gravel, The Pentagon Papers, Vol. I, p. 85.
15. Public Papers, President Eisenhower's Remarks, August 1:, 1955, p. 540.
616. Sherman Adams, Firsthand Report (New York:- Harper & Row, 1961), p. 120.
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