... of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. The papers represent the most complete secret archives of government decision-making on Indochina. Rarely has a collection of documents similar to these papers come to light in modern history. Included in the papers is McNamara's December 1963 memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson summarizing the situation in Vietnam as very disturbing. "Current trends ... , unless reversed in the next 2 ­3 months," he said, "will lead to neutralization at best and more likely to ... and bombardment of North Vietnamese coastal installations by PT-...

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