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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
CONF IDENTIAL
WASHINGTON
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Gerald R. Ford
Ambassador John Sherman Cooper, Ambassador
to German Democratic Republic
Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME:
Wednesday, November 6, 1974
11:45 a.m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
The White House
President: What was the final tally on Marlow [Cook]?
Cooper: About 73,000. I really thought he had a chance. He carried
Lexington. Our district didn't do well.
In relationship to your campaign - -- you hurt no one. And I'm not
just buttering you up. In fact you helped. Before you came, the
Republicans had given up.
3/10/04
President: My reaction is the same. Bob Dole said my stop in Wichita made
the difference. Also in Utah. My own district is what hurts. We lost by
1-2%.
Cooper: I knew when I was going to win and when I was going to lose.
DECLASSIFIED
BY. NSC MEMO, GUIDELINES stateleview
Marlow knew what he was up against. Kentucky is 2-to-1 regular
Democrat. There is no feeling against you. It wasn't a referendum on
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your program. On taxes, you may have to raise them a little.
President: We apparently lost four in the Senate and 39-to-40 in the House.
When you think what we were carrying -- Watergate, inflation, etcetera.
E.O. 12958, SEC. 3.5
11/24/98, STATE DEPT.
Cooper: They all like you. It is not discouraging.
President: We can now allege they have co-equal responsibility. They can
be held accountable.
TOP SECRET - XGDS (3)
CONFIDENTIAL
CLASSIFIED BY: HENRY A. KISSINGER
CONFIDENTIAL
2.
When do you leave?
Cooper: Two weeks from Friday. I am your representative. They are
tough people and it will be a tough time. There isn't much knowledge
about the Communist Party and how it works and what its objectives are.
The Soviets are there with 300, 000 troops and maybe they don't like
them. Then there is Berlin.
President: Be firm. We didn't send you to capitulate. We won't take
anything from them. We are sending a good man and we won't take any
guff.
After the war, I negotiated with the Soviet Union over displaced
persons. We had orders to send them back to the Soviet Union. I was only
a Lieutenant but I protested to Patton and they changed the order.
Cooper: I will stand firm, don't worry. I know I have your and
Kissinger's confidence. I will look at the staff, and if I don't like them,
I will make some changes.
President: Who is your Deputy?
Cooper: Grove. I don't know him, but he wanted to open the Embassy before
I got there.
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