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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
UNCLASSIFIED
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Ford
Canadian Commissioners:
Dr. Maxwell Cohen
Mr. Bernard Beaupre
Mr. Keith A. Henry
U.S. Commissioners:
Mr. Henry P. Smith, III
Mr. Charles R. Ross
Mr. Victor L. Smith
Jack H. Warren, Ambassador to Canada
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME:
Monday, April 5, 1976
12:00 - 12:37 p.m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
Smith: My wife sends her best regards.
President: Betty is out in Wisconsin campaigning. She does a better
job that I do.
Tell me about some of your problems.
Smith: I just happen to have a brochure.
President: Michigan has more coastline than any other state.
Cohen: Canada is supposed to have 53,000 miles of coastline.
President: How are we doing on cleaning up the Lakes?
Smith: There are indicators they are getting better. We are making
progress.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5
CLASSIFIED
NSC MEMO, 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES
BY. lake
NARA DATE 6/17/04
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Henry: It is still a very serious problem and the best we can say is
it isn't getting worse.
President: In my '77 budget I have $6. 9 billion -- the biggest in the
history of the U.S.
Cohen: There is a surprising inability of industry to meet the demand
for pumps and other equipment.
Smith: Lake Ontario is rising again and Lake St. Louise is in flood.
You will be getting calls to pull the plug on that Lake -- but I hope it
will be all right.
President: Aren't all the Lakes high?
Smith: Since Hurricane Agnes, they have all been high.
President: When I first ran for Congress, Lake Michigan was high
and I blamed my opponent for not doing anything about it.
Cohen: The final irony is that the Lake level was in '64, when we started,
very low; now they are very high.
Ross: We have felt we should regulate the Lakes as a unit, but that
isn't popular with everyone.
Cohen: Wₑ are a unique institution and we should all be proud of it.
What if we had to quarrel over every water problem?
Cohen: I heard Tom Enders give his maiden address. It was a good
job - - unbalanced, but a good bit of advocacy.
Ross: How about a ski competition with the Prime Minister?
President: We have thought of that but not in '76.
Ross: We would be happy to host such an event at Mt. Mansfield.
President: I used to ski there.
Smith: We are happy to hear your budget has taken in this environment
problem. We also would make a plea for a surveillance system so we
can know how well we are doing.
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Cohen: I think it is essential to keep up the momentum. The Lakes are
unique and we shouldn't relax our effort. We have always been con-
cerned to recognize the twin imperatives of economics and the environ-
ment.
President: I hear Lake Erie is better.
Henry: Be cautious about that. The whole Lake is not markedly better.
Smith: Some beaches have been reopened and the fishing is better.
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