CABLE TO SECRETARY KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-3-25-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: May 24, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM
S E C R E T SENSITIVE EYES ONLY VIA
TDHAK 310
MAY 24, 1974
TO: JERRY BREMER/PETER RODMAN
FOR. SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM; BRENT SCOWCROFT
1. FORTIFIED WITH YOUR VERY HELPFUL COMMENTS ABOUT A
PRESIDENTIAL TRIP (HAKTO 140-142) 1 HAD A GOOD TALK WITH THE
PRESIDENT AND I THINK LEFT HIM RELAXED ABOUT THE WHOLE THING.
HE ACCEPTS THE IOTH AS THE EARLIEST FEASIBLE STARTING DATE,
AND I OUTLINED FOR HIM, AS EXAMPLES, TWO ALTERNATIVE ITINERARIES.
THE FIRST WOULD COVER JUST'THE FIVE "MUST" COUNTRIES AND I TOLD
HIM WE COULD 00 THAT AND HAVE HIM HOME ON THE 17TH. ADDING THE
NORTH AFRICAN STOPS, WE COULD STILL GET HIM HOME THE 19TH. I
TOLD HIM THIS WAS JUST A FIRST, VERY ROUGH CUT BUT IT WOULD GIVE
HIM AN IDEA THAT IT WAS MANAGEABLE. HE SAID THAT IN GENERAL HE
WOULD PREFER ONLY ONE NIGHT PER STOP, TO AVOID ALL THE
RECIPROCAL BANQUET FORMALITIES. I REPLIED THAT HE MIGHT
WANT TO CONSIDER TWO NIGHTS IN CAIRO AND PERHAPS TWO IN
ISRAEL, WHICH IS THE BASIS I HAD USED IN MY CALCULATIONS.
I MENTIONED AGAIN SLIDING THE SOVIET TRIP THREE DAYS TO
INCREASE THE INTERVAL BETWEEN THE TWO TRIPS AND HE ASKED
WHETHER THE RUSSIANS WOULD BE UPSET AT OUR GOING TO THE
MIDDLE EAST JUST BEFORE THE SUMMIT. I RESPONDED THAT I
DID NOT BELIEVE SO BUT THAT WAS AN ISSUE THE TWO OF YOU
SHOULD DISCUSS. HE SEEMED QUITE RELIEVED AT THIS CONVER-
SATION, AND EVEN HAD A MUCH MORE OBJECTIVE OUTLOOK ON
MAKING THE TRIP AT ALL. I NOW THINK PART OF HIS PROBLEM
MAY HAVE BEEN A FEELING OF UNCERTAINTY, WHICH WAS DISPELLED
BY GIVING HIM A FEW DATES AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIVE DETAILS.
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ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
I HAVE NOT APPROACHED DOBRYNIN ON THE POSSIrILITY OF SLIPPING
THE SOVIET TRIP UNTIL THE 27TH AND SEE NO RFASON TO DO SO
PRIOR TO YOUR RETURN.
2. THE PRESIDENT CALLED ME IN AGAIN LATER ON AND
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RUMINATED AT SOME LENGTH ABOUT A NUMBER OF TOPICS. HE
BEGAN BY SAYING HE WAS CONCERNED AT THE PICTUR~E THE PAKISTANI
FOREIGN MINISTER HAD PRESENTED YESTERDAY. HEIWONDERED IF THE
SOVIETS AND/OR THE INDIANS MIGHT HAVE LONG TERM DESIGNS'AND SAID
HE THOUGHT WE OUGHT TO HAVE A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE POSSIBILITIES
(I WILL HAVE A NSSM DRAWN UP FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION). HE THEN
WENT ON TO TALK ABOUT ELECTIONS AND NEW GOVERN ENTS IN BRITAIN,
GERMANY, FRANCE' CANADA. AND AUSTRALIA. HE WO DERED HOW WILSON
WOULD DO IN NEW ELECTIONS WITH HIS LABOR TRNB ES MOUNTING AND
WE WENT ON TO DISCUSS PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEMS IN GENERAL AND
VARIATIONS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. HE THEN ASKED ABOUT THE PRC
AND WHETHER THEY WERE TURNING. ON US. I TOLD HIM THAT YOUR
CONVERSATION WITH TENG HAD GIVEN NO INDICATIONOF THAT. I
NOTED THAT THEY ARE STILL UNDERGOING INTERNAL URBULENCE BUT
WE SAW NO CONCLUSIVE SIGNS THAT IT WAS HAVING NY SUBSTANTIAL
REFLECTION IN FOREIGN POLICY.
3. AN OP-ED ARTICLE BY GEORGE F. WILLS (SENT TO YOU
SEPARATELY) ILLUSTRATES IN FULL THE PROBLEM WE WILL BE HAVING
ON SALT. IN ESSENCE, HIS LINE IS THAT EVERYONE IN THE
GOVERNMENT HAS THE NATIONAL INTEREST AT HEART ON SALT EXCEPT
YOU AND THE PRESIDENT, WHO ARE LOOKING FOR A "QUICK-FIX"
AT THE SUMMIT FOR'PERSONAL REASONS. IT IS.SICK.
4. THE PRESDIDENT DEPARTED FOR KEY BISCAYNE AT 1300.
WARM REGARDS.
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