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519. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant ( Rostow ) to President Johnson

al case. It is not a civil war, it is an uprising of foreign mercenaries. The principle involved does not require us to get involved in civil conflict elsewhere on the continent. (This is an oblique reply to the charge that we must now move into the Nigerian problem. You may want to make private use of the fact that we turned down an arms request from the Nigerian central government last week.) 5. One can make a decent case that the President’s action has already provided us with one major accomplishment—the avoidance of major racial violence on Sunday in Lubumbashi (formerly Elisabethville). …

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1967-07-10
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXIII, Congo, 1960–1968
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v23/d519
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Record ID	`frus:frus1964-68v23/d519`

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519. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant ( Rostow ) to President Johnson. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1967. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1964-68v23/d519.