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Digitized from Box 14 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
JULY 30, 1975
POOL REPORT # 3-
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(WILSON BREAKFAST)
With a big security contingent, Kissinger, Scowcroft and Sonnenfeldt
arrived at 7:50 a.m. After they went in the Embassy residence you could
see Ford and Kissinger talking in the courtyard. Kissinger seemed to be
doing most of the talking, perhaps giving him his morning briefing.
Kissinger would gesture expansively with his hands and the President
would nod occasionally and cross his arms in front of him.
P.M. Wilson arrived a few minutes early in a grey Daimler limousine,
followed by three other cars. This was a smaller security contingent
than the one accompanying Secretary Kissinger. Ford and Wilson, along
with Kissinger and Callaghan, posed for pictures at the door and exchanged
pleasantries. Wilson was Wearing a blue suit and blue tie. The President
was wearing a blue pin-stripe with red and blue rep tie.
Inside the residence, the pool went in for the picture taking around the
breakfast table. Present were: Ford, Kissinger, Scowcroft, and
Sonnenfeldt for the U. S.; and Wilson, Callaghan, Sir John Hunt, Secretary
of the Cabinet, and a Col. Stowe, who is a Cabinet Officer.
The small talk concerned Poland. Ford said he had never been in
Auschwitz. The President mentioned that Warsaw had been 90% destroyed
in World War II. Wilson mentioned that he had been in Warsaw before.
Ford mentioned being in Bonn before the Poland stop. "I was in Germany
two days before you, " Wilson said.
The room where this meeting was held is the Embassy dining room. It is
painted white, with a large fireplace. An abstract painting hangs over the
fireplace.
The meeting ended at 9:05 a.m. Wilson had changed pipes, coming out
with a blue bowled pipe and he was smoking an orange bowled going in.
Ford was asked what they talked about and he responded with a smile:
"Very broad subjects."
JOHN MASHEK
ERIC ENGBERG
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