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March 17, 1969
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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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