SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02408142
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: March 25, 1968

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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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25 March 1968
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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25 March 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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Conditions in Hanoi:
that morale still appeared to be high
among the inhabitants of Hanoi. the people
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as going about their work cheerfully and their atti-
tude toward controls as "disciplined." The Doumer
bridge was still down, with no work in progress, but
20 kilometers south, a new pontoon bridge permitted
a limited amount of alternating traffic to flow in
both directions.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Communist Commentary on General Westmoreland's
Transfer: Hanoi, with considerably more speed than
usual, has already commented on the transfer of Gen-
eral Westmoreland. A Nhan Dan editorial on 24 March
claimed--predictably--that ThT change in command was
another indication of the over-all failure of US
policy in Vietnam. Westmoreland's removal, said
Nhan Dan,had nothing to do with his ability to com-
a-Ea.�The main thrust of the editorial was an at-
tempt to discredit over-all US policy in Vietnam and
the US President in particular.
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Hanoi Notes Student Harassment of Secretary
Freeman: Hanoi propaganda has picked up Western
press reports of the student harassment of Secretary
Freeman in Wisconsin last week. In a broadcast in
English on 24 March, it described the students as
"angrily protesting" and frequently interrupting the
speaker. The same broadcast also cited several other
expressions of antiwar feeling in the US: a letter
protesting the war in the New York Times written by a
"former director of the economic aid program in Viet-
nam, Gardner"; a New York Times interview with "four
businessmen connected with the Home Trade for Peace
in Vietnam Organization"; and a speech by "well-known
American writer (James) Michener in Caracas"--all de-
nouncing the US role in Vietnam.
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