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    "ocrText": "File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nMEMORANDUM\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSECRET/NODIS\nMEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION\nPARTICIPANTS:\nPresident Nixon\nDr. Henry A. Kissinger, Assistant to the\nPresident for National Security Affairs\nGeneral Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\nMajor General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant\nto the President for National Security Affairs\nDATE:\nFriday, May 31, 1974\nPLACE:\nOval Office\nSUBJECT:\nReport on Secretary Kissinger's Middle East\nTrip and President's Forthcoming Trips to the\nMiddle East and USSR\nKissinger: On SALT, maybe an agreement in principle is possible.\nOn MBFR\nPresident: Which would have enormous domestic impact.\nKissinger:\na 5% US-Soviet cut is conceivable.\nPresident: We should lay the groundwork with the Soviet Union.\nKissinger: That could give minor problems with the Europeans. The\nSoviet Union is waiting to see how CSCE works out. We are holding up\nCSCE until you get to Moscow.\nMaybe you can get something in MBFR for CSCE.\nPresident: We want to show new progress on MBFR to avert unilateral\ncuts here.\nKissinger: Within a year we will have massive problems in the Middle\nEast with the USSR. This summit needs a slightly different flavor.\nSECRET/NODIS\nDECLASSIFIED\nNSC MEMO, labs 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES state 3/8/04 GERALD\nE.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5\nV\nNARA DATE 8/5/04\nSECRET/NODIS\n2\nCut the camaraderie by 20%, because we may have a confrontation\nwith them within a year.\nPresident: Get up the books for me on the Middle East. Next week\nmy schedule is clear. I am ready for work on SALT.\nKissinger: Our interest in the Middle East is to show things down,\nnot to accelerate it.\nFURO\nSECRET/NODIS\nBERRED\n3/2mg 74\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nWASHINGTON\nMil SALS East trip\nhave messive problems in ME\n3 WVSR.\nAt - Mayber apellment in\nprimps\nK-Thi service wells a digards\nMBFR - Enrors dranstic\nby from crtc commondine by\nimport\n20%, become in may home 1\n- a 5% US-Sessent is\ninfortation or/in a year.\nconchrotik.\nP. we w/su should lary geordrate\nP- Great rp books for me ors ME,\nWext wh is chan, love\nK- corldgion\n- cs/ Eurs, suis\nready for work on SALT\nwriting to Lee hmucscE\nK One noths in MENT\ncorresont. we are birding\nHow 1555\nMPCSLE smith myet\naculnate,\nt Miscount mugh year\ncan IRA something\nfor \"QCE.\nDECLASSIFIED\nP- Wn and to show sect prog.\nE.O. 12956, SEC. 3.5\non MBER to arest indiated\nNSC MEMO, 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINE' state Review 3/9/04\ncorto\nMADA DATE 8/5/04\nK-S w/ina a ye as and will"
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