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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State and
Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs
Dr. James R. Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense
Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
DATE:
Wednesday, April 2, 1975
[Excerpts]
Kissinger: We have to restore the good name of the United States and
some of our enemies.
We have to do what de Gaulle did after Algeria -- be tough as nails,
and don't give ground anywhere.
We have to be tough if challenged.
Things are the worst since 1939, and then there was no U.S. behind
us.
The Portuguese problem has been misdefined -- a Communist
takeover, giving the Soviet Union bases, etc. That would be easy to deal
with. I am afraid they are on a more moderate course which would
trigger a "historic compromise" in Italy and France. We must force
them out of NATO.
We must do nothing until their election [of April 25] is over.
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