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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
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Ford
Amb. Daniel P. Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME:
Tuesday, January 27, 1976
4:32 - 5:15 p.m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
President: The vote last night in the Security Council wasn't as bad as
it could be. I thought it was interesting that Libya and the Chinese didn't
vote.
Moynihan: We came out rather well. It was not an acrimonious debate
and the resolution was - - while not something we could support - - - not so
outrageous that one couldn't imagine our support. Actually, the debate
was a good one.
President: [Reads note brought in. ] We beat the Byrd Amendment on the
Marianias 8-7 in Senate Armed Services Committee and the bill itself
passed by 9-4. That is good. It would have been bad to turn those people
down.
E.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5
N9C 11/24/96, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES State
NARA, DATE 6/7/04
Moynihan: The only subject for the Trusteeship Council now is the U.S.
territorities. There is nothing else. There is a Committee of 24 -- the
decolonization committee -- in the General Assembly. They are the ones
giving us trouble. They issued an outrageous report. They discussed our
base on Guam, our military base in the Virgin Islands, and NATO support
for Rhodesia. When we attacked the report our allies were nowhere to be
found.
BY
CLASSIFIED BY BRENT SCOWCROFT
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (b) (1,3)
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to det.
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
2.
The Namibia debate is up today. The difference between South
Africa and the United Nations is now minimal. I think that is manageable.
The question is Angola. It may come up and make things messy. This
may be an opportunity to let people know what Angola is all about. You
are all alone on this.
President: [Described the Angola situation. ] It is time these people put
up or shut up. Congress has lost its guts -- they have cut and run and we
need them on the record. No one who voted no can tell me to get tough with
the Soviet Union. There is a lot of talk but no guts.
Moynihan: But the way to deal with it is not to confirm our pacificism but
to reverse it. When it came up in the UN, the resolution was anti-South
Africa, I got up and read the New York Times article about Cuban inter-
vention and the resolution was eventually withdrawn. We could make it the
counterpart of Vietnam -- - there our blue eyes were shooting the natives,
now it is their blue eyes shooting the blacks.
President: But I think we first have to get them pinned down so the people
know who won't stand up for the United States.
Moynihan: You want to attack some Congressmen -- I want to attack the
Soviet Union.
President: I have no objection to that, but we have to have people stand
up to be counted.
[General Scowcroft left the meeting briefly, and returned. ]
Moynihan: I have one personnel matter. The Department knows about it.
To replace Barbara White. I would like Bob Kitchen. He is black.
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