US Presidency
1967

Will there be less infiltration of main units? Will there be more of guerrilla warfare? The actual truth is we just don't know. What we do know is that General Westmoreland's strategy is producing results, that our military situation has substantially improved, that our military success has permitted the groundwork to be laid for a pacification program which is the long run key to an independent South Vietnam. Since February 1965, our military operations have included selective bombing of military targets in North Vietnam. Our purposes are three: To back our fighting men by denying the enemy a sanctuary; To exact a penalty against North Vietnam for her flagrant violations of the Geneva accords of 1954 and 1962; To limit the flow, or to substantially increase the cost of infiltration of men and material from North Vietnam. All of our intelligence confirms that we have been successful. Yet, some of our people object strongly to this aspect of our policy. Must we bomb, many people ask. Does it do any military good? Is it consistent with America's limited objectives?