THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 23 JULY 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976265
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• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 23, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
23 JULY 1968
1. Czechoslovakia
2. Soviet Union
Prague has not responded yet to the
Soviet decision to talk to the Czech
leaders on their home ground. Czech of-
ficials, however, have consistently in-
dicated that Prague will talk with the
Soviets, but Prague radio has added that
the Soviet troops must be gone first.
The Czechs may delay,answering.the
viet proposal until they are satisfied
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presence of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia,
although several more Soviet .units have
recently let-I.-the country. Other Russian
contingents are set to leave today, and
tonight, according to Czech press releases.-
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3. Egypt
4. West Germany
Officials .in Bonn are still afraid
the East Germans are about to place
more restrictions on access to Berlin.
-Foreign Ministry officials, for in-
stance, are particularly worried that
barge traffic to the city will be dis-
rupted. Other possibilities are new
mail and parcel post 'restrictions. ,In
addition, there are rumors that when
the Soviet ambassador to East Germany
returned home last week, he was carry-
ing a whole raft of proposals, for fu-
ture measures against the city.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
.) North Vietnamese Reflections of U S
Political Attitudes
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
'23 July 1968
NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Hanoi Restrained on Honolulu: :The North Viet-
namese may be trying to get across the idea that
they have a white hat in the closet and would put
it on in exchange for some US concessions. To the
possible hints already dropped--reduced Communist
military activity and some measure of flexibility
on the Front program--they now have added a notably
low-key comment on the Honolulu meeting.
Yesterday Nhan Dan, the party daily, discussed
the conference less in the traditional terms of
America's evil intent and more as A tedious ritual
the President had to go through to shore up the
.Thieu government. After-a11,-Nhan Dan noted edi-
torially, questions of war and peace would really
be decided in-Washington, not Honolulu.
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NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
.ATTITUDES ON:THE WAR
There is nothing significant to report today.
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