 On 31 August 1963, the diplomat Paul Kattenburg returned from Saigon where he reported that public opinion in South Vietnam was overwhelmingly hostile to Diem, which led him to suggest it was time for "for us to get out honorably".All of the assembled officials rejected Kattenburg's idea with Rusk saying "we will not pull out...until the war is won".Rusk reassigned Kattenburg from South Vietnam to Guyana.