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DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
NUMBER
TYPE
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
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memo
From: Haldeman to HAK
1/13/69
D
FILE GROUP TITLE
BOX NUMBER
HAK Office Files
1
FOLDER TITLE
27
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES ATHLS ISTIBATION suant to E.O. 13526 be declassified.
NA 14021 (4-85)
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS PROJECT
DOCUMENT CONTROL RECORD.
ITEM REMOVED FROM THIS FILE FOLDER
A. RESTRICTED DOCUMENT OR CASE FILE HAS BEEN REMOYED FROM
THIS FILE FOLDER. FOR A DESCRIPTION OF THE ITEM REMOVED
AND THE REASON FOR ITS REMOVAL, CONSULT DOCUMENT ENTRY
NUMBER 01
ON EITHER THE DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD
(GSA FORM 7279 OR NA FORM 1421) OR NARA WITHDRAWAL SHEET
(GSA FORM 7122) LOCATED IN THE FRONT. OF THIS FILE FOLDER.
A sanitized copy substituted for an original item which
contains information restricted under the Privacy Act.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
NLN Form 101 (revised 6-85)
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
January 4, 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. HALDEMAN
From: Lawrence S. Eagleburger
Subject: Reply to Madame Nhu
At Tab A, per your request, is a proposed reply to
Madame Nhu's letter to the President-Elect.
Since there is no return address, I suggest that we
ask our Paris Embassy to deliver the letter when signed
(it will be in a sealed envelope, so no one will know the
contents). If this is how you want it handled, return
the signed original to me and I will take care of it.
Madame Nhu's letter is at Tab B.
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
January 4, 1969
Dear Madame Main:
Mrs. Nixon joins me in thanking you for your
warm and generous letter of congratulations. It
will be a great source of strength to us in the
years ahead.
May 1969 bring you every success and happiness.
Sincerely,
Richard Mxon
Madame Ngo-Dinh-Nhu,
Paris,
France.
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Subj: Thank you letter
LSE:ej
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
SECRET
January 7, 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. HALDEMAN
From: Lawrence S. Eagleburger
Subject: Memorandum on a new NSC system; President-Elect's
decisions thereon
At Tab A is a copy of Dr. Kissinger's memo to Mr. Nixon on a
new NSC system. At Tab B is a xerox copy of the decisions made
on that memo by the President-elect. With regard to the latter
document, Dr. Kissinger has asked that I particularly call your
attention to Mr. Nixon's decision on National Security Decision
Memoranda and National Security Study Memoranda (page 3).
SECRET
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
SECRET
January 7, 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. HALDEMAN
From: Lawrence S. Eagleburger
Subject: Memorandum on a new NSC system; President-Elect's
decisions thereon
At Tab A is a copy of Dr. Kissinger's memo to Mr. Nixon on a
new NSC system. At Tab B is a xerox copy of the decisions made
on that memo by the President-elect. With regard to the latter
document, Dr. Kissinger has asked that I particularly call your
attention to Mr. Nixon's decision on National Security Decision
Memoranda and National Security Study Memoranda (page 3).
SECRET
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
January 16, 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. HALDEMAN
SUBJECT: Arrangements for Secretariat Control of National
Security Papers
Under the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations the NSC complex
maintained a central receiving, logging and control facility for documents
dealing with national security matters. This has been a reasonably
comprehensive and effective system.
The qualification regarding the effectiveness of past practices is
necessary primarily due to factors which were beyond the control of the
NSC staff, e.g. senior officials and agencies who intentionally and other-
wise by-passed the NCS; or the by-passing of established procedures by
the President himself and by his principal Assistants. The effectiveness
of the existing system could be improved at the outset (although enforce-
ment will be a continuing problem) by (1) a White House instruction to all
departments and agencies (as well as an instruction to White House and
Executive Office staff) informing them that they are to forward papers
to the President on national security business exclusively through the
NSC channel; and (2) by the establishment of a Presidential Secretariat.
Under the conditions outlined above it would be the responsibility
of the Assistant for National Security Affairs to insure that all national
security papers destined for the President be logged in under continuous
control, processed expeditiously and delivered to the Presidential
Secretariat when ready for the President's attention. Inevitably some
national security papers will reach the Presidential Secretariat without
passing through the NSC process. To assist the Presidential Secretariat
in identifying such papers so that they can be re-routed to the NSC, a
checklist of national security subjects will be provided to the Presidential
Secretariat.
When the President has acted on or otherwise disposed of a
national security paper, it should be returned from the Presidential
Secretariat to the NSC control point, following which appropriate action
or subsequent transmission to the departments and agencies would be
accomplished under direction of the Assistant for National Security
Affairs. In the course of processing paper through the NSC facilities,
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a Presidential national security file will be accumulated in the West
Basement where facilities for 24 hour reference, retrieval and
appropriate security safeguards will be provided. The safeguards
provided this file must, and will, be quite stringent, reflecting its
highly sensitive nature -- both from the security and personal
Presidential point of view. Access to and release of such material
will be permitted only on the authority of the Assistant for National
Security Affairs.
Henry A. Kissinger
RMoos This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
All communications directed to the President originating in
executive departments and agencies, including those from department
and agency heads, dealing with national security matters -- in the
broadest interpretation of that phrase -- should be delivered to the
office of the Assistant for National Security Affairs. The NSC office
under the direction of the Assistant to the President will establish
secretariat control of all incoming papers prior to forwarding them to
the office of the President. While a Presidential Secretariat has been
established to record and control all papers destined for the President's
desk, national security papers are to be received and processed in the
first instance by the NSC office as described above. Should any papers
in this category reach the Presidential Secretariat without first being
recorded in the NSC office, they will be referred to that office.
National security papers which the President has acted upon or
otherwise disposed of will be processed out of the Presidential Secre-
tariat to the NSC office. Any subsequent actions required, such as
the relay of Presidential decisions, return of signed correspondence
or follow-up on Presidential comments, will be accomplished under
the direction of the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs.
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
All communications directed to the President originating in
executive departments and agencies, including those from department
and agency heads, dealing with national security matters -- in the
broadest interpretation of that phrase -- should be delivered to the
office of the Assistant for National Security Affairs. The NSC office
under the direction of the Assistant to the President will establish
secretariat control of all incoming papers prior to forwarding them to
the office of the President. While a Presidential Secretariat has been
established to record and control all papers destined for the President's
desk, national security papers are to be received and processed in the
first instance by the NSC office as described above. Should any papers
in this category reach the Presidential Secretariate without first being
recorded in the NSC office, they will be referred to that office.
National security papers which the President has asked upon or
otherwise disposed of will be processed out of the Presidential Secre-
tariat to the NSC office. Any subsequent actions required, such as
the relay of Presidential decisions, return of signed correspondence
or follow-up on Presidential comments, will be accomplished under
the direction of the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs.
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
All communications directed to the President originating in
executive departments and agencies, including those from department
and agency heads, dealing with national security matters -- in the
broadest interpretation of that phrase -- should be delivered to the
office of the Assistant for National Security Affairs. The NSC office
under the direction of the Assistant to the President will establish
secretariat control of all incoming papers prior to forwarding them to
the office of the President. While a Presidential Secretariat has been
established to record and control all papers destined for the President's
desk, national security papers are to be received and processed in the
first instance by the NSC office as described above. Should any papers
in this category reach the Presidential Secretariate without first being
recorded in the NSC office, they will be referred to that office.
National security papers which the President has asked upon or
otherwise disposed of will be processed out of the Presidential Secre-
tariat to the NSC office. Any subsequent actions required, such as
the relay of Presidential decisions, return of signed correspondence
or follow-up on Presidential comments, will be accomplished under
the direction of the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs.
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
All communications directed to the President originating in
executive departments and agencies, including those from department
and agency heads, dealing with national security matters -- in the
broadest interpretation of that phrase -- should be delivered to the
office of the Assistant for National Security Affairs. The NSC office
under the direction of the Assistant to the President will establish
secretariat control of all incoming papers prior to forwarding them to
the office of the President. While a Presidential Secretariat has been
established to record and control all papers destined for the President's
desk, national security papers are to be received and processed in the
first instance by the NSC office as described above. Should any papers
in this category reach the Presidential Secretariat without first being
recorded in the NSC office, they will be referred to that office.
National security papers which the President has asked upon or
otherwise disposed of will be processed out of the Presidential Secre-
tariat to the NSC office. Any subsequent actions required, such as
the relay of Presidential decisions, return of signed correspondence
or follow-up on Presidential comments, will be accomplished under
the direction of the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs.
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
All communications directed to the President originating in
executive departments and agencies, including those from department
and agency heads, dealing with national security matters -- in the
broadest interpretation of that phrase -- should be delivered to the
office of the Assistant for National Security Affairs. The NSC office
under the direction of the Assistant to the President will establish
secretariat control of all incoming papers prior to forwarding them to
the office of the President. While a Presidential Secretariat has been
established to record and control all papers destined for the President's
desk, national security papers are to be received and processed in the
first instance by the NSC office as described above. Should any papers
in this category reach the Presidential Secretariate without first being
recorded in the NSC office, they will be referred to that office.
National security papers which the President has acked upon or
otherwise disposed of will be processed out of the Presidential Secre-
tariat to the NSC office. Any subsequent actions required, such as
the relay of Presidential decisions, return of signed correspondence
or follow-up on Presidential comments, will be accomplished under
the direction of the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs.
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
January 16, 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT HALDEMAN
From:
Henry A. Kissinger
Subject: NSC Space and Budgetary Requirements
Space
The Problem
In order to implement and staff the revitalized NSC structure --
publicly endorsed and officially approved by the President -- the
NSC will need approximately twice its present office space. At
least 50% of the increase will be required, effective January 20,
in order to accommodate personnel already designated who will
come on board then.
Immediate but interim solution
(a) BOB to return NSC offices on the third floor which
they presently hold on loan.
(b) NSC to inherit the first floor space previously
occupied by Ambassadors Komer and Leonhart.
(c) NSC to retain free space on second floor presently
used by the Vietnam Information Group.
Long term -- yet pressing -- requirement
(a) Assignment of third floor center corridor (Rooms 390-399)
do NSC, plus=
(b) Retention by NSC of the first floor space mentioned
above, plus=
(c) Additional contiguous space (13 offices) on the third
floor re-allocated to NSC.
Discussion
At present there are, in addition to administrative support
and liaison (e.g. JCS, CIA, etc.) personnel and offices, 24
substnative officers and secretaries (13 and 11, respectively)
assigned to 21 offices in the third floor NSC space. Present
for duty on January 21 will be 40 officers and secretaries (23 and 17,
respectively) to fit into the same 21 offices. When the staffing
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of the NSC organization, as approved by the President, is completed
(program and planning staffs and consultants) there will be an
additional 17 officers and 11 secretaries requiring 17 additional
offices. In addition, it will be necessary, almost immediately,
to enlarge the NSC communications, records and reproduction
facilities to provide secretariat services necessary to support
the work of an active NSC and its related bodies. Five more
offices are needed for this purpose.
Some doubling up of officers and secretaries is anticipated,
but, given the nature of their responsibilities and the configurera-
tion of the space, the relief which can be obtained in this manner
is limited. The re-configuration of existing space has been
studied extensively in the past and found to be both impractical
and prohibitively expensive (there is in abeyance a master plan
for renovating the EBB, but this would take months - or years --
to complete.
It should be noted that the total spaceerequired to fulfill
the Presidentially approved organization will be less than that
occupied by the Eisenhower NSC organization.
There obviously is no way to squeeze the NSC organization
into the existing NSC office space. In order to carry out the
President's wishes, a major re-alignment of third floor space must
be ordered, requiring the Budget Bureau to relocate many of its
present third floor offices. It is beyond my purview to suggest
how this be done, but it should be recognized that there are
several organizations (in addition to BoB) which do not have the
same need to remain in the EOB that the NSC has.
Budget
The Problem
From the above discussion, it will be apparent that the NSC
budget must receive a sizable increase (50%-100%) in order to
function at an increased level of activity for the remainder of
FY 69. Budget requests and projection for FY 70 and beyond must
be completely restudied.
Interim Requirements
BOB should be directed to work with the NSC on an urgent
basis to obtain relief from present restructions, to obtain
supplemental funds for FY 69, and to revise the FY 70 appropriation
request.
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The present personnel ceilings should be revised upward;
the Civil Service Commission should be asked to authorize an
increase in the number of NSC super grade positions.
Discussion
A major effort is underway, with good cooperation from
all -- particularly at State where the heaviest burden falls --
to obtain NSC personnel on non-reimbursable detail. The same
cooperative principle needs to be applied to the non-personnel
expenses of the invigorated NSC.
Major studies need to be undertaken with regard to:
(a) NSC information retrieval requirements (computer applications
are clearly in order) and; (b) NSC consultant and research
programs. In both instances, the principle of Joint participation
and support (both personnel and money) by NSC member agencies
should be applied.
CONFIDENTIAL
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.
SECRET
January 7, 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. HALDEMAN
From: Lawrence S. Eagleburger
Subject: Memorandum on a new NSC system; President-Eleet's
decisions thereon
At Tab A is a copy of Dr. Kissinger's memo to Mr. Nixon on a
new NSC system. At Tab B is a xerox copy of the decisions made
on that memo by the President-elect. With regard to the latter
document, Dr. Kissinger has asked that I particularly call your
attention to Mr. Nixon's decision on National Security Decision
Memoranda and National Security Study Memoranda (page 3).
SECRET
This document has been reviewed pursuant to E.O. 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.