CABLE TO AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD FROM THE SITUATION ROOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-262-1-8-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 31, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/11/15: LOC-HAK-262-1-8-1
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FMY: T HE SIT UAT ION ROOM
TO AtiEiBASSY ISLAMABAD
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PASS TO B'~'FMER/tOMPERT FOR THE SECRETARY
TO JERRY i REMER FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM e BRENT SCOWCROFT
25X1.1. SIMON, EIDMAN, ET AL. HAVE AGREED NOT TO O TO THE PRES-
IDENT WITH ANY ISSUES ABOUT THE WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE. BEFORE
HIS DEPARTURE (AT 1:20PM) FOR i(,ISLAST-,CAMPAIGN SWING. ENDERS
IS ARGUING AT THE PRESENT TIME ABOUT WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE ONE
REAL ISSUE-- SHOULD THERE BE SPECIFICS PRESENTED IN THE SPEECH
SIMPLY GENERALITIES`? ENDERS WILi SEND A COMPLETE REPORT
AS SOON AS HIS NEGOTIATIONS END,
'. BILL SINNON CAME IN THIS ; OR NINO 8E? ORE STAFF MEETING TO
COMPLAIN "ffILDLY ABOUT NOT H.AVIfJG A COPY OF YOUR SPEECH. WHEN
I POINTED OUT THE NATURE OF YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT HAVING THE SPEECH.
RUBBED IN TriE ECOMOMIC BOARD ME:E'ING, HE, TO MY SURPRISE.,
AGREED CON'PLETELY. SAID HE DID-NOT BELIEVE IN DING BUSINESS
BY :OMB' IT TEE THAT WAY AND YOU WERE ASSDLUTELY RIGHT IN YOUR
POSITION- HE EVEN SUGGESTED THAT I' RAISE WITH THE PRESIDENT
OUR CONCERN OVER THIS PE(CHA "T FOR;DOING,BUSU\ESS PY COMMITTEE.
THIS ATTITWE WAS, I GATHE, , IN SHARP CONTRADISTIJCTION TO
HIS BEHAVIOR AT THE ECONOMIC MEETING WHICH FOLL.,OWE~~. I WAS ABLE
TO OBSERVE ONLY A SMALL PART OF THAT MEETING, BUT FROM THAT AND
ENDERS* COMMENTS SIMON DID NOT SEEM TO SE PARTICULARLY HELPFUL
FRO Mi 0!R POINT OF VIEW.
3. BUTZ CALLED TO SAY THAT HE WWAS,,IN ERROR YESTERDAY, THAT HIS
PEOPLE HAD SCHEDULED HIM FOR 4 PRESS CONFERENCE IN ROME ON
MONDAY EVENING. HE HAS CANCELLED THAT. PRESS CONFERENCE AND SAID
M BLEUT IF THERE IS HE'
THEREAY NOTE ONE IN )BRUSSES E.LT,HR , B,.,
WILL AVOID FOOD CONFERENCE ITEMS TO THE. VERY',.SEST OF HIS.
,ABILITY.
4. I SAT IN ON A MEETING THIS MORNING WITH THE PRESIDENT,
SCHLESINGER AM ASH TO TALK ABOUT POSSIBLE CUTS IN OUTLAYS IN
THE FY 75 BUDGET. I EXPLAINED YOUR POSITION (HAKTOIf), WITH
'WHICH THE PRESIDENT AGREED. THE ONLY CUTS WHICH WILL SE PROPO
WILL BE AN OVERALL FREEZE ON PROMOTIONS IN THE EXECUTIVE BRAN
0 ADD-ON ITEMS TO THE BUDGET WHICH DEFENSE-HAD NOT RECOM-
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"ENDED-IN OTHER WORDS, tOTHI"G 4`HICH HAS TF!-E APPEARANCE OF
IHF PRESIDENT CUTTING 1-11S OWN DEFENSE BUDGET,
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/11/15: LOC-HAK-262-1-8-1