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Last week, at his first press conference in ten weeks, Secretary of State Dean Rusk reiterated some truths about Viet Nam. "The problem of peace in Viet Nam rests with Hanoi," he said. "That is, our forces are there because of the infiltration of men and arms by Hanoi into South Viet Nam. Had that not occurred, our forces would not be in South Viet Nam. So it is Hanoi that has to decide to bring its troops back and stop its infiltration of men and arms. They are the ones that hold the key to peace...
...United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, to New York with a letter requesting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to use all his best offices to try to achieve a peace settlement. He even mentioned the terms laid down by Hanoi last April, terms then indignantly rejected by Secretary of State Rusk, as conditions that should not even be discussed.* Said the President: "We are going to continue to persist, if persist we must, until death and desolation have led us to the same conference table where others could now join us at a much smaller cost...
...aims to aides. "I told McNamara that he's my righthand punch," he says. "I told him to take the power of this country and with it keep our word and our honor and protect the lives of our boys to the maximum extent possible. I told Rusk and Goldberg that they're my lefthand punch...
...other possible landing sites, and the Bay of Pigs was chosen. Sorensen reports that the Joint Chiefs failed to inform "either Kennedy or McNamara that they still thought Trinidad preferable," while Schlesinger recalls that the Chiefs said they still preferred Trinidad-but said it "softly." At one point Dean Rusk suggested that the operation be launched from Guantanamo, thereby providing the invaders with an opportunity for retreat; but the Joint Chiefs rejected that idea, and Rusk later complained to Schlesinger that "the Pentagon people" were willing to risk "the President's head" but not the U.S. base...
With the U.S. caught in the act of sponsoring the first B-26 raid, reports Schlesinger, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, backed by McGeorge Bundy, convinced the President that the D-day morning raid "would put the U.S. in an untenable position." Everyone, says Sorensen, would have regarded it as "an overt, unprovoked attack by the U.S. on a tiny neighbor." Kennedy canceled the second strike; he changed his mind later, but after the strike was reinstated, it was rendered useless by bad weather. Sorensen carefully points out that Kennedy did not-as is often maintained-"cancel U.S. air cover...