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167 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON SECRET January 18, 1968 MEMORANDUM FOR WALT ROSTOW SUBJECT: Greece The question of recognition seems to be coming to a head. This afternoon's manifestation of the problem is that Phil Talbot has simply asked permission to acknowledge directly to the Prime Minister the letter that came from him to the President via Tom Pappas. Nick Katzenbach may be calling you about this and I think this is the bare minimum we can do. Tomorrow we will be getting the draft reply to Papadopoulos that the President asked for. Since this whole recog- nition question has been moving fast, Luke Battle did not want to send over the draft which is ready until he could make a clear recommendation on whether and how to transmit it. That's tomorrow's business. For the moment I just want to alert you to this problem and prepare you for Nick's call. DECLASSIFIED Hal E.O. 13292, Sec. 3.4 Hal Saunders NSC Memo, 1/30/95, State Guidelines By , NARA, Date 12-11-03 SECRET