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244. Notes of Meeting

Rostow Files, Meetings with the President, July-December 1968 [1]) Secretary Rusk : Today is Tuesday. Tomorrow we should look at this. Let’s meet at 5:00 tomorrow. See Document 248 . Do it at 1:30 p.m. Lunch tomorrow. [Omitted here is discussion of Biafra.] Goodpaster General Wheeler : Goodpaster told [Bryce] Harlow he preferred to stay in the field, but would do what he was told to do. Nixon wants him 6-7 weeks starting in mid-December. The President: I would do just what Nixon proposes. General Wheeler : General Abrams can do it. Secretary Clifford : I would hope you could put a limitation o…