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This i most emphatically do not feel we should do." ("PINTA:
RANGU01N," Text, p, la), It should also be noted that some in the
administration had expected the pause would fail but saw it as a
necessary last-chance offer before undertaking planned escalation.
See Pentagon Papers Vol. 4, Gravel Edition, pp. 303, 623.
62. Kraslow and Loory, p. 151.,
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63. Johnson, pp. 590-591 and Gelb pp 162-163. See Figure 7-1 for a
graphic portrayal of the various initiatives and contacts %-uring
the p.2riod.
64. Gelb p. 151, and Henry Cabot L(dge, As It Was: An Inside
View of Politics and Power in the bOTs and 60's (New York: Norton,
1976), pp. 171-173.
65. Kraslow and Loory, pp. 18-22.
66, DoD US-VN Relations, Book 12 VI. C.2. (Dissension), p, 16.
6?. Kraslow and Loory, p. 5,
68. DoD US-VN Relations, Book 12 of 12, Vi. C.4. (Negotiations), p.8.
69, Quoted in Chester L., Cooper, The Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam
(Greenwich, Conn., Fawicett, 1970), p.. 381.
70. Goodman, pp. 63-64.
71. Quoted in Goodman, p., 65.
72. !bid., p. 71.
73. See Consultation Memo; for Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, Wasnington,
D.C., April 1965, His:ory Back-up Fi'e (27 March - 7 May 1965),
Private Papers of General William Westmoreland, on file at the
Office of the Army Chief of Military History (OCMH).
74. See a memo by Genera" De Puy, MACV J-3, of his meeting with ARVN
General Thang, Saigon, August 1965, History Bach-up File (July -
August 1965), General Westmoreland's Private Papers, on file at
CCMH, Washington, D. C.
75. Goodman. p. 3.
76. Quoted in Goodman, p. 24.
77. Johnson, pp. 579.-589.
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