CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-6-28-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 7, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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DELIVER TO BREMER/ROOMAN FOR THE SECRETARY.
TO: HENRY A. KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
MAY 6r 1974
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NOTHING VERY EXCITING AT STAFF MEETING THIS MORNING.
BURCH SAID THAT THE PRESIDENT'S PHOENIX APPEARANCE WAS A'
REAL SUCCESS ON ALL ACCOUNTS AND SPOKANE, WHILE IT WAS
NONPOLITICAL, WENT WELL. TIMMONS SAID THAT THE MILITARY
PROCUREMENT BILL AND SUPPLEMENTAL WOULD BE UP IN THE SENATE
THIS WEEK AND,HE WAS NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THEOUTCOME. HAIG
SAID THERE MAY BE A CABINET MEETING LATE IN THE WEEK ON
THE 'NEW INITIATIVES" WHICH WERE TO HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED BY
EACH DEPARTMENT. HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT HEARINGS IN THE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WOULD PROBABLY BEGIN LATE THIS WEEKS
WITH CLOSED HEARINGS ALL NEXT WEEK AND OPEN TELEVISED
HEARINGS BEGINNING TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY. HAIG CONCLUDED
THAT THE PRESIDENT CAME OUT OF LAST WEEK ABOUT AS. WELL AS
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COULD HAVE BEEN HOPED. IT WAS BAD, BUT THE WORST THEY HAD
FEARED DID NOT HAPPEN. THEY HAD BEEN AFRAID-THAT THE MATERIAL
MIGHT BE VIEWED AS BEING SCI REPUGNANT THAT A GROUND SWELL
AGAINST THE PRESIDENT WOULD ARISE, THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
HAIG DID A GOOD JOB ON "ISSUES AND ANSWERS." IT WAS
COMPLETELY WATERGATE AND THE QUESTIONS WERE NOT PARTICULARLY
BRILLIANT.
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I WAS CHATTING WITH HAIG LATER ON TODAY AND HE MENTIONED
HIS PROBLEMS IN ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION TO ACCOMMODATE SHULTZ'S
DEPARTURE. APPARENTLY ASH IS MAKING A BIG PUSH TO BECOME
OVERALL COORDINATOR IN THE ECONOMIC FIELD. I TOLD HIM I THOUGHT
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THAT WOULD BE A DISASTER AND HE COULD NOT LET IT HAPPEN.
HE SEEMED TO AGREE AND I GATHER HE WAS THINKING OF DIVIDING
RESPONSIBILITIES BETWEEN BILL SIMON AND PERHAPS, HERB STEIN,
OR EVEN BRINGING IN A NEW ASSISTANT'FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS;
FOR CIEPY HE IS'THINKING OF MERGING IT WITH STR AND PUTTING
BILL EBERLE IN CHARGE, BUT WITH A DIRECT LINE TO THE PRESI-
DENT RATHER THAT THROUGH TREASURY AS HAS BEEN THE
CASE UNDER SHULTZ. IF YOU HAVE ANY INPUT YOU WOULD LIKE ME
TO MAKE, LET ME KNOW,
HAIG ALSO MENTIONED THAT THE JEWISH GRAPEVINES APPARENTLY
THROUGH LEN GARMENT, WAS SAYING THAT GOLDA MEIR WAS BESIDE
HERSELF ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS. I POINTED OUT THAT
THEY HAD ACTUALLY DESERVED MORE THAN THEY GOT IN VIEW OF
THE PROPOSAL THEY HIT YOU WITH WHEN YOU ARRIVED. HE WAS
NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE LETTERS, JUST PASSING ON HOW THEY
HAD BEEN RECEIVED.
APPARENTLY SCOOP JACKSON HAS ASKED DEFENSE FOR A
"INDEPENDENT EVALUATION" OF HIS SALT PROPOSAL.
A TICKER ITEM JUST RECEIVED STATES THAT A GERMAN GOVERN-
MENT SPOKESMAN ANNOUNCED WILLY BRANDT'S RESIGNATION.
THE SENATE DEFEATED TODAY: 39w41s THE ACCOUNTING PRO-
CEDURE WHICH WOULD HAVE GIVEN VIETNAM $266 MILLION IN MASP.
WARM REGARDS.
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