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McNamara/Kissinger
9:45 a.m. - 9/18/73
K:
Hello.
M:
Hello, Henry, how are you?
K:
Bob, how are you ?
M:
Fine. Say, I hate to bother you with my business but I got a problem
now that is close to being your business. Let me sketch it to you very
quickly. The meeting of the Bank and Foreign Governors starts in
Nairobi next Monday. On Sunday in Nairobi the Committee of 20 meets -
the Finance Ministers in preparation for that Monday meeting as far as
the monetary problems are concerned. On Saturday what are known as
the Deputies of the Finance Ministers for the Renegotiation of the Fourth
Replenishment of (Item) meet. This matter was started last September
and was supposed to have been settled in March of this year, it's been
dragging on and on because the U.S. hasn't given an answer. All of the
other countries have agreed on the formula at $1500 million of commitment
authority per year for 3 years with the US percentage to be reduced from
40% to 33 1/3%.
K:
We've had a paper into the President for weeks on this.
M:
On Saturday of this week the wholething was to be lined up with that. I
just heard and I can't even disclose my - in fact I don't know the name of
the guy in the government who gave us the information - but last night
Shultz went over to talk to the President about this and the President
said
that
if Shultz hadaxtx said in effect that the Congressional support
isn't strong enough to put through such legislation without the President's
support, the President said "Well, he's got too much to do on military
and certain other things that he can't support it. 11
K:
I have told the god-damned Shultz not to do this a hundred times.
M:
Honest a god, Henry, it's the most inept thing I've ever seen. He told
I told the Treasury the other day I could deliver these Chairman -look
if they'll let me do it.
K:
Bob, it drives me up a wall. Shultz all summer long has had a memo
into the President asking the President for his abstract commitment
to support the replenishment. I stopped it and pulled it out of the
President's office all summer long. Because you cannot ask a President
to make an abstract commitment to do something.
M:
Of course not. When you finally get down to the wire you want to say
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