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OCR Page 1 of 227WILLIAM P. BUNDY
1087 Great Road Princeton. N. J. 08540
July 3, 1986
E. William Johnson
Chief Archivist, J.F.K. Library
Columbia Point, Boston MA 02125
Dear Mr. Johnson: --
I feel very badly not to have acted sooner on
your letter of August 20, 1985, nearly a year
ago. In that letter you discussed a manuscript I
had done on the Vietnam decisions, and asked me to
send you a copy for reproducingand use at the
Library. I regret to say that I mislaid the letter
and never acted on it through a long winter in
which I was preoccupied with more immediate
situations in South Africa and the Philippines, the
former for teaching purposes at Princeton.
At any rate, the delay was not all loss, for
in the meantime I have found three additional
chapters to the original manuscript. It now
comprises a total of 33 chapters, although a few of
these are only in outline. This I am now sending to
you by separate cover, at the book rate.
I have also been informed, recently, that the
LBJ Library in Austin would like to have a copy on
tap. Thus, I would be grateful if after you have
made a copy for your use, you could send on the
present copy to them for reproduction and eventual
return to me. This would close all the most
important circuits, as the Historical Office at the
Department of State has had a COPY for the past
year, and I am sending them the just-unearthed
addtional chapters 31-33 today.
I remain somewhat concerned that readers might
take the manuscript as my final thoughts. Since I
did it in 1969-72 there has been much additional
scholarship, and I myself have done a lot of
thinking. Already I find authors slightly misusing
the MS -- notably George Kahin in his latest
book. Thus, while I do not insist on checking
quotes before any use in a publication, please put
a note on the MS indicating that it is not my final
word, and has not been revised since it was written
in 1969-72, and thus in the interest of historical
accuracy users would be well advised to check with
me before citing it, certainly on any controversial
point.
Sincerely,
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