Speech #890182592

I think then my judgment under these circumstances would be to gage carefully not only what we do but how we do it. We are really not so much ourselves trying to beat the Vietcong but trying to supplement the force of the free South Vietnamese so that the people themselves will want to rid themselves of the Vietcong. Barbarous executions by South Vietnamese and massive land scarring by B52s and our artillery will not get. the support of the people if nearly a million injured refugees are forced into Saigon as was reported today. It is possible that we can try too hard and lose the people. In a jury trial you can have a perfect plaintiffs case. but spend too much money on diagrams and witnesses and lose the jury.