THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 28 FEBRUARY 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976640
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: February 28, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
28 February 1969
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MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS
'MIDDLE EAST
Old guard Labor Party leaders, looking for ways to block
an early power bid by Moshe Dayan, are now considering putting
forward Mrs. Golda Meir as the head of a caretaker government
until parliamentary elections are held. These leaders, who
control the party machinery, are said to believe that Mrs.
Meir, 70 and not in good health, would be less likely to pro-
voke an immediate move by the Dayan forces than would be the
case if Allon were left in the job. (Dayan at this point
probably considers Allon his principal rival.)
Dayan has not yet tipped his hand. Embassy Tel Aviv
thinks there are many factors arguing against Dayan's making
his Move now, but reports he is under strong pressure from his
followers to go for broke. One of Dayan's big problems, if
he wants to become prime minister under the powerful Labor
Party's banner, is his lack of voting strength in the party
itself.
EUROPE:
The small, "guerrilla-type" demonstrations which extrem-
ists in Paris were planning for President Nixon's visit could
mushroom into something much bigger in the wake of yesterday's
shooting of a student. The security forces are better organ-
ized than they were last spring however
We believe
they will be able to keep any disturbances away from the US
party.
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President Nixon's stop
in West Berlin was enormously successful.. The crowd of sev-
eral hundred thousand which lined the motorcade route was as
large as that which turned out for President Kennedy's visit
in 1963 and much larger than any which welcomed any visiting
dignitary since then. There were no significant anti-US dem-
onstrations; in some cases would-be demonstrators were set
upon by irate civilian bystanders. Newspapermen-say the Presi-
dent came across as a "sympathiach," friendly American,
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SOVIET AFFAIRS.
The West Berlin representative in the talks with the
East Germans was a trifle optimistic in his report of the
first meeting when he said Pankow would be willing to meet
again. In answer to his message proposing another meeting
yesterday, the East German representative replied that no
further talks would be held unless the West German presiden-
tial election was switched to another city.
Despite this hardening of the East German position,
representative of the Foreign Office in Bonn reports that
Chancellor Kiesinger will make one more approach to Soviet
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