THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 21 NOVEMBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976474
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 21, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
21 November 1968
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.THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
21 NOVEMBER 1968
1. South Vietnam
2. Australia
3. Czechoslovakia
Most Australians, including a
critical press, agree that Gorton put
on an outstanding performance Tuesday
when he defeated an opposition no con-
fidence motion. This was his first
major test since succeeding Holt. By
a margin of 67-35, Gorton beat back a
wide range of Labor Party challenges
on his foreign, defense, and domestic
policies.
Gorton does not have to hold gen-
eral elections until November 1969,
but he may decide to use the momentum
of Tuesday's victory and call them for
early next year.
Students appear to be falling in
line with rather pointed government sug-
gestions that they stop their sit-ins
and get back to class. Prague Radio is
reporting that student committees are
calling off their strikes today. ? The
sit-ins have had distinctly anti-Soviet
overtones.
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4. Communist China Peking, where fear of foreign_con-
tamination sometimes becomes manic, is
beginning another period of tighter se-
curity controls. ?Travelers going from
Hong Kong into China are now being
searched as they enter. Once inside,
the visitors are encountering more fre-
quent police checks.
The Chinese are clamping down on
what gets out as well as what gets in.
Foreign subscribers to Chinese publica-
tions are getting cancellation notices.
5. Mexico
6. Tanzania
The net effect of Tuesday's demon-
stration was to harden the attitudes of
both students,and government. The stu-
dents are refusing to end their class-
room boycott and the government intends
to close the national university if the
strike goes beyond 27 November. The
chance for renewed clashes is good.
Yesterday morning Tanzanian police
took over Zanzibar in.what.was described'
as.an.exercise. While the city was
given .back to the radical Zanzibar Gov-
ernment:by nightfall, the operation
clearly:was intended as an object. les-
son. Tanzanian.President Nyerere.has
had, little but trouble from recalcitrant
Zanzibar, Where most members, of ,the..iul-
ing-clique.have been bought: by one Com-
munist country or another
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7, Rumania
8. Venezuela-Cuba
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
2.) North Vietnamese Reflections of U S
Political Attitudes
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
21 November 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
..Hanoi Plays Up.Viet Cong Attacks: Recent Hanoi
Radio propaganda As giving increasing emphasis to
the role of Viet Cong guerrilla and local.forces in
descriptions of the current fighting in the South.
International service broadcasts in particular have
specifically and consistently attributed Communist
attacks to "regional army" units or local guerrillas.
Such references 'reinforce the position of Hanoi's
negotiators in Paris that military action in the
South is-under the direction of local-Viet Cong com-
Manders-overswhoM Hanoi has no control.
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. North Vietnamese Ambassador's Views on Talks:
North Vietnam's ambassador in Cambodia told a jour-
n.alist earlier this month that Hanoi is in no hurry
for the expanded Paris talks to begin, and that Sai-
gon's boycott works to North .Vietnam's advantage
since it enhances Hanoi's image. He stated his be-
lief that the US would soon withdraw its support. for
the "Thieu-Ky clique" and that .a coalition government
favorable to .a peaceful settlement would succeed it.
He observed that Mr. Nixon's election would not
significantly alter the situation in Vietnam since
Communist fortunes were inexorably on the upswing.
This has been the standard Communist line for some
time now.
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II: NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF-US.POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
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