THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF - 1968/01/25

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
25 JANUARY 1968
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2. South Vietnam
3. Laos
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Some members of the lower House 3.3(h)(2)
may be slanning to dabble in peace ef-
forts.
Over a week after the debacle at
Nam Bac, the government still cannot ac-
count for more than half of the troops
deployed there. Large stocks of heavy
weapons, ammunition, and other equip-
ment were also lost. We do not believe
that the Communists intend to drive far
south from Nam Bac, but they are step-
ping up their annual dry-season campaign
against government guerrilla bases in
the northeast.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
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I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Kosygin to Hanoi?:
Premier Kosygin will go on to
Hanoi after his visit to New Delhi later this week.
Such a visit could be timed to coincide with the
Tet bombing pause. The last high-level Soviet visit
to Hanoi was in January 1966, when Politburo member
Shelepin led a delegation to North Vietnam during
the 37-day pause. The current US-Korean trouble
could alter any plans Kosygin might have.
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Hanoi Holds the Line: North Vietnam seems un-
willing to go any further in publicly elaborating
on its position concerning talks with the US. After
strongly denouncing President Johnson's restatement
of the San Antonio formula in his State of the Union
message, North Vietnamese media generally have con-
centrated on presenting Hanoi's usual hard-line treat-
ment of the war and ignored the issue of negotiations.
On 22 January, Mai Van Bo, who last week pub-
licly stressed the positive aspects of Hanoi's posi-
tion, cancelled a scheduled interview because he had
"said everything he had to say up to now."/
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Hanoi still has not endorsed Mai Van Bo's off-
the-record interview with a French journalist on
17 January. His remarks at that time may have ex-
ceeded the bounds of what Hanoi wants said in pjub-
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Nothing of significance to report.
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