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March 17, 1969 pe IF24 MEMORANDUM TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON March 17, 1969 From: Harry Middleton HULA 12:10 PM MeMO PRESIDENT, Telephone (RE:ABM) OFFICE OF by Mr. President: NATIONAL DEFENSE on for the following I spoke to Secretary Clifford again 6 this morning to determine the extent of his approval of President Nixon's ABM decision. Clifford said he does approve conditions that would the Nixon decision. Attached are the notes of my telephone conversation with program. him. V er concept was be- Secretary McNamara called to give me his thoughts on the differences be- S wise to temper and tween the Johnson Administration plan and the Nixon Administration plan. ng our chances of Attached are my notes of the McNamara conversation ed. would be if the Congress to build any kind of de- t an enormous disadvan- ts. So we take less if we modify the ABM passage. ct of our defensive missile plan on our talks with the Soviets than I am with the actual merit of the plan itself. "The opposition has built up to the point where the wise course is to modify the plan. I believe we now have a good chance to get the modified plan through.

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