PERSONS/ENTITIES: KENNEDY, John F. DIEM LODGE NHU BUNDY RUSK MADAME NHU DATES: 6 Sept. 1963 CATEGORIES: DIEM OCCURRENCE: At a PRESIDENTIAL meeting on Vietnam, on September 6, 1963, HELMS and COLBY provide the following summary: RUSK stressed the immediate need for direct contact between LODGE and DIEM. BUNDY pointed out the necessity of advising LODGE not to have a real show-down with DIEM over NHU at this forthcoming meeting, as one of LODGE's cables indicated he was headed very much in this direction. TASK agreed to do this. The PRESIDENT agreed with the desirability of silencing MADAME NHU but expressed some doubt that NHU's participation was as fatal as STATE seemed to say it was. RUSK commented that the COUNTRY TEAM had stated its feeling that NHU must go, to which the PRESIDENT replied that they may have been operating under directives received from here. (16) SOURCE: I.G. REPORT 1967, Part C, p. 16 STAFF: Dawson FILE: DATE: 28.6.75