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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Gerald R. Ford
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State and
Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs
Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to
the President for National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME:
Saturday, January 11, 1975
9:25 - 10:05 a.m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
The White House
GERALD
Kissinger: We had a reply from the Soviets. They will not agree to
modify the trade agreement. They will reject any statement that MFN
helps emigration. It is a tough note, saying they are dispensed from
their:obligations under the 1972 agreement.
President: This throws out the lend-lease payment.
Kissinger: Absolutely. Now we must figure out how to notify the
Congress. Their rejection is just in your channel. We could do it
formally through Art Hartman; then you could inform the leadership.
5/10/04
Or we could put it out through State.
President: My inclination is to notify the Congress through a note about
the notification to State.
Kissinger: We have to worry about Jackson. Javits says he is the most
ruthless politician he knows. He may try to put on even more restric-
tions, but will have lost his following.
I will have to think about how to put it out. I am meeting with the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday.
CLASSIFIED BY
HENRY A. KISSINGER
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (b) (1,3)
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to Det.
File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
2.
President: You shouldn't announce it there.
Kissinger: Maybe if we could get it in the paper Thursday morning.
I told Javits it might fail and he said hold up for a month and he would
try to get a billion.
President: I don't think we should. This is a good way to highlight the
problem with the Congress that we are trying to point out.
Kissinger: On PL-480, the Humphrey Amendment is mandatory. Ideally,
we need the high option and Vietnam as a Most Seriously Affected country.
President: Indonesia?
Kissinger: No. The high option and Most Seriously Affected would let
you meet your foreign policy objectives. You would make Humphrey happy.
With the existing allocation and Vietnam, you either cut Korea in
half or drop Indonesia.
President: If Agriculture sayswe have enough, I will go with the high
option.
Kissinger: I should talk to Humphrey. I would like to talk to him about
the Congressional problem in general and this abstract moralism --
and I could tell him we will go to the high option if he will move Vietnam
to the MSA category. I would like to get some of the responsible
Democrats together and try to convince them to pursue a bipartisan
foreign policy.
President: I agree. They should fight us on domestic and not foreign
policy. [There is discussion about Wayne Hays]
Kissinger: [Mentioned the need to get a handle on the DOD budget so the
President didn't have to spend his time on commissary prices.]
FORD
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SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
GERALD
LIBRARY
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DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12058, SEC. 3.5
GERALD
LIQUARY
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BY Mr
NARA. DATE 5/10/04
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