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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
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Nixon
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Assistant to the
President for National Security Affairs
General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Major General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
DATE:
Friday, May 31, 1974
PLACE:
Oval Office
SUBJECT:
Report on Secretary Kissinger's Middle East
Trip and President's Forthcoming Trips to the
Middle East and USSR
Kissinger: On SALT, maybe an agreement in principle is possible.
On MBFR
President: Which would have enormous domestic impact.
Kissinger:
a 5% US-Soviet cut is conceivable.
President: We should lay the groundwork with the Soviet Union.
Kissinger: That could give minor problems with the Europeans. The
Soviet Union is waiting to see how CSCE works out. We are holding up
CSCE until you get to Moscow.
Maybe you can get something in MBFR for CSCE.
President: We want to show new progress on MBFR to avert unilateral
cuts here.
Kissinger: Within a year we will have massive problems in the Middle
East with the USSR. This summit needs a slightly different flavor.
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Kissinger: Our interest in the Middle East is to show things down,
not to accelerate it.
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