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OCR Page 1 of 298THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN.
SECRET SENSITIVE
DRAFT - May 10, 1969
Since taking office four months ago, the question to which I
have devoted more of my own time and energy than to any other is how to
achieve peace in Vietnam.
I want to end this war. The American people and the South
Vietnamese people want to end this war. But we want to end it permanently
- in a way that will discourage aggression and future wars.
Tonight, I would like to report to you on some of our actions
to achieve peace in these past four months. It is important that you know
the judgments we have reached about the nature of an acceptable negotiated
settlement and about possible ways of approaching it.
Review and Reassessment
Our first step began before Inauguragion. This was to launch
an intensivenreview of every aspect of the nation's Vietnam policy. We
accepted nothing on faith. We challenged every assumption and every
statistic, knowing that in Vietnam, disagreement has concerned not only
judgments but the facts themselves. We made a systematic, serious
examination of all the alternatives open to us. We carefully considered
recommendations offered both by critics and by supporters of past
policies.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12958, Sect. 3.6
By Him NARA, Date 1/9/98
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