CABLE TO SECRETARY KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-1-17-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2009
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: May 11, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/07 : LOC-HAK-260-1-17-3
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FOR, SECRETARY KISSINpER
FRC1M: BRENT SNDWCROFT
I. THE PRE5IDENT IS SPENDING THE MORNING IN HIS EDB OFFICE.
YESTERDAY AND TODAY THE TOWN HAS PEEN ,FULL CAF WILD RUMORS-
ABDUT HAS RESIGNATION -- INCLUDING ONE TWAT YC1U HAVI" fiEEN
ORDERED BACK pN AN EMERGENCY BASIS T[l ACCEPT HIS LETTER DF
RESIGNATION. OTHERS RUN fH~ GAMIT FROM A CIELEGATrON DF RE~-.
PUBLICANS BEING ORGANIZED TD DEMAND HIS DEPARTURE TD TWA
PRESI?ENT~S PHYSICAL COLLAPSE. SUCM A NgBLE PERIOD.
,~. YqU WAVE'BEEN SENT SEPARATELY A NFW YfIRK TIMES CDN-
DFNSATICiN DF AN ARTICLE BY YOUR DLD FRIEND ROGER MORRIS.
THE FULL ARTICLE IS SIMPLY AN EMBELLISMMENT Ot^ THE NEW
YORK TIMES PIECE.
3, AL TOLD ME WE WAS TAKING T^ TWE PRE5ICIENT SCWLESINGERrS
RFCOMMENDATIQN FC]R BROWN qS JCS CHAIRMAN AND JONES AS AIR
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SYSTEMATIC MEANS C]F DEVELC}RING A x,975 FCIDD AIp P~iJGRAM.
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HC}Wf=VER ILLUSTRATES THE PRpBLEM AND THE NEEp Fb~ US T(~
M(~VI= IN A CClC1RDINATEp FASHI?N TC~ KEEP.,,THINGS UNDER C1UR CONTRCIL,
5, THE PRESIDENT IS;pEPARTING AT k:40 THI5 AFtERNDCIN T?
GIVE THE CClMMENGEMENT ADI]RESS AT gKLAHC7MA STATE UNIYERSII"Y,
HE WILL RETURN DIRECTLY HERE FpI.LDWING WIS SPEECH.
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WARM REGARDS.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/07 : LOC-HAK-260-1-17-3