391. Editorial Note
Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn and Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman on May 9, 1968, at 10 a.m. at Blair House. Ruskʼs next appointment was at 10:30 a.m. at the Department of State. Rusk later hosted a lunch for Thanat in the Madison Room of the Department of State at 1 p.m. (Johnson Library, Rusk Appointment Book) The first meeting at Blair House was recorded by Moncrieff J. Spear, the Country Director for Thailand, as separate memoranda of conversation for each topic. The first topics were Vietnam negotiations and Laos; the second, U.S. Treasury bonds and dollars reserves held by the Thai; the third, information activities; the fourth, the Michigan State Universityʼs contract for educational assistance and planning; the fifth, regionalism; [Page 870] and the sixth, status of forces negotiations. These memoranda, May 9, are in Department of State, Central Files, POL 27–14 VIET, FN 9 US–THAI, POL 23 THAI, AID (US) 8–6 THAI, POL ASIA, DEF 15–3 THAI–US, respectively. The record for the luncheon meeting on the 8th floor of the Department followed the same format of one topic, one memorandum of conversation. Rusk and Thanat discussed the U.S. press, ASEAN and the Sabah claim, Cambodia, the Vietnam peace talks, and Treasury bonds (with a official of the U.S. Treasury, John R. Petty, who attended the lunch for that purpose). These memoranda, May 9, are ibid., PPB 9 US, POL 3 ASEAN, POL 17 CAMB–US, POL 27–14 VIET, FN 9 US–THAI, respectively. A file of documents relating to the Thanom/Thanat visit is ibid., S/S-Official Visits File: Lot 70 D 419, V-62a and b.