THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 29 JULY 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976905
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: July 29, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
29 July 1969
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I, MAJOR PROBLEMS
VIETNAM
Hanoi has denounced President Nixon's remarks in
Guam on 25 July by selecting portions which fit easily
into the mold of routine Communist propaganda. An
article in the party daily Nhan Dan on 29 July charac-
terized the President's references to a post-Vietnam role
for the US in Asia as an indication that the USintends to
perpetuate a policy of trying to "dominate" the region.
The article described the President's policy as one of
pitting Asians against Asians in a "crusade" against Com-
munist-countries. Itclaimed that Saigon, Manila, and
Bangkok would willingly. lend. themselves to such American
schemes.
The Communists only obliquely took note of the Presi-
dent's response to a question about a possible scaling
down of US military action in South Vietnam. The paper
charged that the President tried to give an impression
that the USwas_willing to stop the war promptly, but that
"people" were asking what he had done to bring about a
solution to the Vietnam problem-. Nhan Dan also made the
familiar claim that the US was in fact stepping up the
pace of the war and that it had failed to respond "seri-
ously" to the Communists' ten-point program. It said the
US still "eludes" the two key problems: stopping the war
and withdrawing all troops without conditions, and ceasing
support of the GVN and letting the South Vietnamese reach
a political settlement through elections.
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SOVIET AFFAIRS
MIDDLE EAST
Disturbed by the danger to his observers posed by
the rising tempo of military activity along the Suez Canal,
General Bull has ordered the temporary closing of two
of the 18 UN posts along the canal. He plans to close four
more if security conditions do not improve.
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II. .OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
NIGERIA
The Nigerian federal government will be sending a
' delegation to see Pope Paul after he,arrives in Uganda
on Thursday, and we suspect a Biafran delegation will
turn up as well. Neither side shows any inclination to
alter its basic demands, however, and we do not think
much will come of the Pope's efforts to get peace nego-
tiations started.
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