"If we go down that road we might have, within five years, 300,000 men in the rice paddies of the jungles of Viet-Nam and never be able to find them."
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Businesspeople from the United StatesUnited States Under Secretaries of StateDiplomats of the United StatesUnited States Permanent Representatives to the United NationsUnited States Under Secretaries of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
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At a Nov. 7, 1961, meeting with President John F. Kennedy. Ball is objecting to the recommendations of Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor and Deputy National Security Advisor Walt W. Rostow to, among other things, increase the US troop presence in Vietnam (see the Taylor-Rostow report).
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George Ball (diplomat)
George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker.
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