The Vietnam situation figured in the Johnson-Eshkol talks, according to Peter Lisagor, White House correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, who covered the meetings at the LIN Ranch.
Lisagor asserted in a dispatch to the News that “Israeli sources interpreted one phase in the joint statement as an indication that the President may have induced Eshkol to show more sympathy towards the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.” That statement, he said, “noted the mutual dedication of both governments to, among other things, ‘resistance to aggression wherever it occurs.'”
Lisagor declared that “no specific reference to Vietnam was made but the President is known to believe that those who support American assurances to Israel in case of aggression ought not to oppose the U.S. role against aggression in South Vietnam.”
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