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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12958 (as amended) SEC 3.3
MR # 10-119, #20
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
JFK records.rev; state ets 7/29/10
By dal NARA, Date 9/1/10
PARTICIPANTS:
President Ford
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State
and Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME:
Saturday, April 12, 1975
11:45 a. m.
PLACE:
Oval Office
Kissinger: The press at David Brinkley's dinner last night was saying
that if you went to Dubuque, the reception for you with that message
[to Rabin] would be great. They asked about your mood, and were you
trying to separate yourself. I said I thought you were at peace with
yourself.
Braden said he asked Colby if he could deny there had been any
assassinations or plans for them. He said, no. Colby must go.
President: I agree. It is a matter of who and when. I want to go into
the country.
Couldn't I weave into the bicentennial something about our foreign
policy?
Kissinger: I have been thinking after last night; I don't have to give a
major speech each time. Just talk for 20 minutes.
President: That's right. The impact is you saying it. The thrust is
we have to be strong.
PERALO
CLASSIFIED BY HENRY A. KISSINGER
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (b) (1, 3)
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to det.
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
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Kissinger: We can take sections from your [State of the World] speech
and expand it. The people last night think within a year there will be
an enormous backlash. This Congress is really McGovern's, because
of Watergate. Osborne thought your speech was great and the pardon
was one of the most courageous things you have done. The press is
out of touch with the country.
President: The local press. Not out in the country.
Kissinger: The press is out of touch. Now that the Israelis have taken
us on this year this year rather than next we maybe have the
opportunity. We maybe should go for all the marbles.
President: Any reaction from Greece and Turkey to my speech?
Kissinger: The Turks are delighted. The Greeks are too, but they
wanted the money under the table.
President: We haven't heard anything from Brezhnev.
Kissinger: Hamilton said he would introduce something.
I told Javits if he is a Jewish spokesman he had to talk to me as
an American and what is in it for the United States.
Israel has done something again I would like to protest about.
I told Allon about your talk with Schmidt, to show them the concern
about Portugal. Now it is in the Israeli papers. I told Allon about
them going to the Germans to contact the Europeans. They [the
Israelis] in doing it this way make it look as if they are going behind
our backs.
Egypt is afraid of an attack. I think we should tell them if it
happens we will formally dissociate.
President: Should we tell the Israelis that?
FORD
Kissinger: When Allon is here.
GERALD
Three out of five speeches now on foreign policy would be good.
Rallying the people should be the theme. We should stress the last
part of the speech, but not avoid Vietnam either.
President: Is the Vice President going to go?
Kissinger: He doesn't want to.
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