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    "ocrText": "Digitized from Box 18 of the NSA. Presidential Country Files: East Asia and the Pacific at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\n4024\n4\nTHE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN\ndof.\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSECRET\nMEETING WITH GRAHAM A. MARTIN,\nAMBASSADOR TO THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM\nFriday, September 13, 1974\n11:30 a. m. (15 minutes)\nThe Oval Office\nFrom: Henry A. Kissinger tk\nI.\nPURPOSE\nTo demonstrate your interest in Vietnam and to convey to\nPresident Thieu a message of support.\nII. BACKGROUND, PARTICIPANTS & PRESS ARRANGEMENTS\nA. Background: Recent Congressional cuts in U.S. assistance\nto South Vietnam undermine South Vietnamese confidence\nin continued U.S. support and in South Vietnam's ability to\nresist Communist pressures. Your meeting with Ambas-\nsador Martin and your conveying through him assurances\nof our support to President Thieu can help bolster South\nVietnamese confidence at a critical time. Ambassador\nMartin will want to express his own concerns about inade-\nquate aid levels; the need to minimize Defense charges\nagainst military assistance to Vietnam; and the necessity\nof an energetic campaign to inform the Congress about\nVietnam.\nB. Participants: Graham Martin and Secretary Kissinger.\nC. Press Arrangements: Press photo session. Meeting to\nbe announced.\nFORD\n&\nSECRET\nGERALD\nLIBRARY\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 12958, Sec. 3.5\nNSC Memo, 11/24/98, State Dept. Guidelines\nBy KBH + nara, Date 2/10/00\nDigitized from Box 18 of the NSA. Presidential Country Files: East Asia and the Pacific at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nSECRET\n2\nIII.\nTALKING POINTS\n1. Recent Congressional cuts in Vietnam aid levels must\nbe discouraging to the South Vietnamese.\n2.\nPlease give President Thieu my personal assurance that\nthis Administration will do everything possible to provide\nadequate military and economic assistance to his country.\n3. I met with Congressional leaders yesterday morning,\nand I am confident that they fully understand the importance\nI attach to meeting our commitments in Vietnam.\n4. We will be working closely with Congress in the coming\nmonths to get the best possible bills.\n5. How do you assess the present situation in Vietnam? What\nare your main problems there?\n6. I understand that you have recently met with a number of\npeople on the Hill, as well as with newsmen and civic\nleaders. Based on your impressions this trip, what\nadditional things can we do here to help you in Saigon?\nrund\nGERALD LIBRARY ?\nSEGRET"
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