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bases would recover a bit of their former importance in view
of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia and the heated
Middle East situation. Admiral Sherman was my father-
law and I accompanied him on his original trip as interpreter
and advisor. During our visit here I renewed a great number
of relationships with Spanish Government officials, whom I
had already known from my days as Assistant Naval Attache
in our embassy. These relationships have been strengthened
in my last ten years here with Gulf. As a result my oldest and
best Spanish friend is Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, presently
President of Spain, and destined to be Spain's new Prime
Minister, probably late this year. I have had a number of
conversations with Carrero on the subject of the bases, and
he is most upset that agreement has never been reached. Nego-
tiations are practically stale-mated and the deadline date of
27 March is getting dangerously near. A compromise solution
has to be found before that date, or, failing that, the Spanish
Government would welcome a personal request from President
Nixon for an additional extension of six months to permit sufficient
time to arrive at an equitable agreement. General Franco and
Admiral Carrero refused to grant this extension to our previous
Administration, which I will explain to you when I see you.
What is really needed now is a face-saving device for the Span-
ish, as they now feel that their shopping list can not possibly
be met, and that it was too optimistic from the outset. If the
new Administration can provide the needed device it will herald
an era of highly desirable relations with the Spanish Government.
I can not tell you how pleased Franco and Carrero were with
Mr. Nixon's election. Carrero called me immediately to con-
gratulate me, and he added that the Generalisimo was equally
pleased. They both loved and admired President Eisenhower
and they believe President Nixon to be of the same type and
caliber. They firmly believe that Spanish-American relations
will achieve their greatest heighth under the Nixon Administration,
and they will go to any length to avoid the misunderstandings that
Occured during the Johnson Administration. They sincerely want
to be our friends, and the Good Lord knows we need all of them
we can muster. They were also most pleased with President
Nixon's inaugural address, and they firmly believe it to be the
beginning of a new and mature era in American foreign relations.
Not only will the United States in general benefit from this
spirit of friendly cooperation, but it will be reflected on all
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