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    "ocrText": "Digitized from Box 15 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nSeptember 4, 1975\nPOOL\nREPORT\nAIR\nFORCE\nONE\nANDREWS AFB to SEATTLE\nWheels up at :03 a.m.\nNessen came back early in the flight, saying the President would be\nbusy on the flight to Seattle working on the six speeches to be given\nduring the day. He said Ford would be met by Governor Dan Evans, Senator\nWarren Magnuson, Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman and a civic welcoming committee.\nHe confirmed there would be a question-answer period at the youth festival\nmeeting in Portland tonight (age of youths ranges from eight to 20.)\nOn the appointment of an Interior Secretary, Nessen said he had\nnothing to announce and expected nothing in the next couple of days.\n(OFF THE RECORD : Nessen advised caution on the name of SBA Administrator\nand former North Dakota congressman Thomas S. Kleppe.) Nessen also\nhanded out paper on the renaming of Earl J. Silbert as U.S. attorney for\nD.C. and Isabell A. Burgess of Phoenix to. be a member of the National\nTransportation Safety Board for term expiring Dec. 31, 197 9.\nOn the veto of oil decontrol, Nessen said not to expect anything\nbefore Saturday at the earliest. He said denontrol was barely mentioned in\nthe meeting with Hill leaders and was discussed for only three minutes at\nthe conclusion of that meeting.\nAs Ford's helicopter could be heard arriving on the White House lawn, X\nfor the flight to Andrews, the President said kakQuickly, If let me say\nwerertainly hope some compromise can be reached on oil decontrol.\" One\nml When one of the congressmen asked: \"When are you going to give a little\nmore, Mr. Presi dent?\", Ford replied: \"Oh, come on.* We've come from way\nover here (gesturing) and we've given 75 per cent.\" Nessen said this was\na light hearted type of change. Someone then asked if the President would\ngo for 60 months. Amid considerable laughter, Ford replied: \"Be've gone\na helluva long way already.\"\nNessen said Zarb held a 45-minute briefing at the White House to\nspell out proposals to correct specific problems growing out of decontrol.\nZarb said if the veto is sustained and there is no compromise on a phase out,\nthe Administration will take the following three S steps: 1. take the #2\ntariff off combined with windfall profits and consumer rebates 2. will\nnatural gas\npropose emergencyn legislation and including authority to protect farmers\nand rural home owners who use propane gas and 3. submit legislation to help\noil\nindependent refiners and marketers adjust to decontrol.\n2-2-2-2\npool report andrews to seattle\nThe rest of the pool report will deal with the Middle East agreement and\nthe Ford-Kissinger meeting with the congressional leaders.\nThe meeting lasted from Xix 7:50 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. When Ford and Kissinger\nentered the room, Nessen said there was applause from the 19 Senators and House\nmembers plus 17 staff members.\nIn the middle of the Cabinet table was a large, 3 by 4 foot, relief\nmap made out of plaster of the critical Sinai disengagement area.\nFord opened the meeting with a statement: \"Almost from the first day I\ntook office, the Middle East has had the highest priority.\" Paraphrasing,\nNessen said the President went into a reditation of the recent\nhistory of the thicx growing tensions in the area since 1974. In discussions\nwith Arab and Israeli leaders last year, Ford said they urged him not to\nallow stagnation or stalemate.\nAt this point, Ford mentioned Kissinger's\nunsuccessful last shuttle attempt, saying \"that disappointment, if we had not\npursued the matter further, would keneux have increased the risk of war. TT\nParaphrase, Ford said that the despite the disappointment, the U.S.\ncontinued its negotiating role and its reassessment of U.S. policy-referring\nto the meetings with Sadat and Rabin this summer.\nFord stressed that there was no point in sending Kissinger back to the\nMiddle East unless there an agreement was almost certain. But he aid that\neven when Kissinger did resume the shuttle \"it still took some\nhard bargaining.\"\nFord then discussed the role of the technicians, emphasizing there\nwould be no more than 200 and they would be within the United Nations zone.\nQuote: \"We did not initiate this ilux idea (for the civilian technicians).\nFord\nIt came from them. \"\nsaid both Sadat and Rabin had separately raised the\nwith him\nFord\nQuote: \"It (the technicians) is = crucial and\nkey to the settlement. 11\nFord called them highly expert individuals, not any part of our military\norganization and limited in number. The President said he had conferred with\nvarious security and military advisers and all approved the idea.\nFord said there is a fundamental issue: \"If we let negotiations break xax down--\nand this was a key item (technicians) -Malmost inevitably war would break out.\nThis was a gamble for peace the avoid the high probability of war. It's a\nrisk I'm willing to take.\"\n3-3-3-3\npool report andrews afb to seattle\nFord emphasized that timing was important and urged them to do anything\npossible to expedite consi deration. He urged them to approve the plan\nwithin two weeks. (Later, Nessen said Kissinger explained that the timetable\nnow called for the technicians to law start taking their posts within 2 ½\nweeks.)\nAt this point, Ford introduced Kissinger who continued the briefing.\nThe Secretary said war would almost certainly have occurred if steps were\nnot taken and the stalemate had continued. Using the large relief map\nand two other maps on easels (those already made public) Kissinger described\nthe agreement in general outline.\nReferring to the stations to be manned by U.S. technicians,\nKissinger said: \"The threst of surprise attack is essentially removed.\nWe do not guarantee the agreement. We have no role to enforce the\nagreement.\"\nKissinger then went into negotiating history, before going into what\nNessen said was considerable detail on the technicians. He said the\nAmerican technicians would be placed in\nfive stations in total. Two of the stations already exist (one Egyptian and\none Israeli) and three others would be manned entirely by Americans.\nAt any time, Kissinger said, there would not be more than 75 Americans\non duty. He said we committed ourselves in writing to mo more than 200.\nThose not on station, he said, will be housed that outside the disengagement\nzone, possibly in the Egyptian city of Ismailia on the West Bank of the\ncanal.\nMore figures: Nissingerg said. that at the two stations\n-\nstill manned\nby Israelis and Egyptians there would be a\ngroup\nof\nno\nmore\nthan\nfive to ten Americans on duty at each. At the three to be manned totally\nby Americans, there would be 10 to 12 on duty at any time.\nBased on\nthese figures, the total at any one time at all five stations would be\n56 or lower than the 75\nlimits\nmentioned\nabove.\nKissinger said the job of the civilian technicians would be to stay in\ncommunication with both sides and the UN. He noted they would only be\nwhere the UN is located in the bufferzone. Before there would be any\nof several thousand\ndanger to Americans, Kissinger said, the UN force would have to withdrawn.\nHe said the agreement states specifically that the President can withdraw the\nAmerican technicians whenever he believes they are in danger. It is\ntotally his indrement\n4-4-4-4\npool report\nandrews afb to seattle\nKissinger elaborated on the timetable for congressional approval,\nmentioned earlier. He said anything beyond the 2½ week period --when\nAmerican technicians are scheduled to be going to their stations--would\nhold up the process. Kissinger quote: \"This (agreement) gives the best\npossibility for peace in a long time.\"\nAt the start of a question-answer period, Speaker Albert was the\nfirst to respond. White House source quoted Albert: \"I am ready to\nrecommend that the House of Representatives approve a concurrent resolumion\nas sson as possible. I intend to support the proposition.\"\nAlbert asked about how much aid would be given to each country.\nWhite House sources (Nesson on background) confirmed the figures\ngiven publicly after the meeting by House minority leader John Rhodes.\nRhodes said the aid for Israel in FY 1976 would range from 2.1 to 2.3\nbillions of dollars. of that total, 1.5 billion would be military\nassistance. For Egypt, Rhodes said the economic aid (no military) would\nrange from 600 to 650 millions.\nAfter dEsclosing the aid range, the President said: \"When you\nlook at the need for stability and the enormous cost of another war,\nthis (the aid) is a good investment.\"\nNessen said that Majority Leader Mansfield raised the question of\nthe Israeli loss of the a oil field at Abu Rudays. Nessen declined\nto give details, subject to Kissinger's testimony later today to the\nSenate Foreign Relations Committee.\nThe President repeatedly made the point, according to Nessen,\nthat the agreement was a first step\n, but that continued\nmomentum is needed to avoid war.\nAsked about = any private understandings or secret agreements\nKissinger said: \"There will be no\nsecret agreements that will be kept from Congress.\"\nAnother question dealt with whether this agreement would lead to Soviet\nTHEIR\ndemands that\ntroops be stationed along the Golan Heights. Kissinger note\nthis seemed to be an unlikely prospect since both Israel and Egypt had asked\nfor the U.S. technicisns,\nKissinger said that if the U.S. can keep the peace progress going,\nwar can be avoided.\n5-5-5-5\npool report\nendrews afb to seattle\nKissinger, on his own, noted 4.5. that some people had made an emeligony\nanalogy between the stationing of technicians on the Sinai and the\noriginal dispätching of U.S. advisers to Bietnam. Nessen, paraphrasing\nKissinger, said in Vietnam, the U.S. got involved in a military operation\nto help one side win, to train the army of one side. In the Sinai,\nTHEY\nthe number of Americans is small are volunteers, civilians, technicians\nand they are there at the request of both sidesm to give warning of\nsuspicious movements. He said they would be withdrawn if in danger.\nOn board AF One for the flightquer were Senator Bob Packwood,\nRepublican of Oregon; Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, and\nRep. Joel Pritchard, Republican of Washington.\nmashek, usn&wr\nkelly, chi trib\nbell, abc"
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