THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 19 OCTOBER 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005974072
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 19, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
19 OCTOBER 1967
1. South Vietnam
Thieu has told Ambassador Bunker
he feels obligated to follow up on his-
campaign promise to approach Ho Chi
Minh with a peace proposal. Thieu plans
to cover the peace theme in a general
way in his inaugural address, and follow
this with a direct message to Ho. Thieu
is thinking in terms of either a pro-
posal for direct discussions (and ask-
ing the US to halt the bombing if he
gets a favorable response) or a bombing
halt to be followed immediately by a
message to Ho proposing talks.
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2. Soviet Union
.3. Soviet Union
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4. West Germany
. Communist China
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6. Pakistan -
Soviet Union
7. Sierra Leone
The leader of this small West ,African
country is on the verge of being ousted.
The other members of the junta have de-
cided he is getting too autocratic. The
new number one man is likely to be a dip-
lomat known throughout the country as
Uncle-Ambrose--the name he was known by
when he starred on children's TV.
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SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM
FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
19 October 1967
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Burchett Leaves Hanoi: Australian journalist
Wilfred Burchett arrived in Laos from Hanoi Tuesday
evening. This was well ahead of the schedule he had
set himself in conversations with the Vientiane press
corps before leaving. Burchett has offered no ex-
planation for his early return and has given no indi-
cation that he has stories of any magnitude.
residents of Hanoi and the Red River Valley,
who had feared US bombing of the dikes and dams dur-
ing the height of the flood season, were relaxing
because the high-water peak has passed and because
their secondary dikes and dams were all in place to
protect against possible bomb damage.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
.More Viet Cong.Support for US Antiwar Movement:
The Viet Cong continues to play up the establishment
of a committee to support the US antiwar movement.
-According to an 18 October Hanoi broadcast, the Viet
Cong radio stated that the new committee will aid the
"common struggle" of the US and Vietnamese people
against the US Government's policy of "aggression" in
-South Vietnam. The broadcast notes that the Viet
Cong makes a clear distinction between the American
people and the "US imperialists" and has never borne
any enmity toward the American people. The Viet Cong
also expresses "full support" for this week's pro-
test drive by US antiwar groups.
.Hanoi radio also said on 17 October that the
"Vietnam. Peace Committee"--which complements the
Viet-Cong "committee"--has sent a message of greet-
ing to the American National Mobilization Committee
to End the War in Vietnam. The message said that the
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Vietnamese people "welcome your initiative to launch
new waves of struggle" to oppose "the war of aggres-
sion conducted by the US Government," and concluded
that "from the all-out fight to bring complete v,ic-
tory to our fatherland, we convey to the American
people our warmest feelings."
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.Hanoi on US Self-Immolations: A 17 October Hanoi
broadcast reported that while President Johnson is
trying to "blur the political essence of the Vietnam
problem" seven Americans have resorted to self-immola-
tion to tell the President that he is the aggressor.
The broadcast stated that Mrs. Florence Beaumont
burned herself to death in Los Angeles on 15 October
to protest US aggression in Vietnam.
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