(SANITIZED)MEMO FOR GENERAL HAIG FROM ASHLEY HEWITT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-17-5-20-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 15, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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October 15, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: CLARK MACGREGOR
FROM; AL HAIG
SUBJECT: Presidential letter to Chairman Hebert
on Mansfield Amendment
Attached is a draft letter for the President's signature to
Chairman Hebert on N anM-field Azca.endi neut. The theme in this
letter should be the one on which we all draw during the
legislative battles that we will face. You will note that it 1e
general rather than specific and, therefore, will not be trouble-
some in the context of the sensitive negotiations that are under-
sa'y's
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Presidential letter to Chairman Hebert on Mansfield Amendment
tiated settlement and an early release of all prisoners of war.
.'Bill. As you know, the effects of passage of that amendment upon the
Vietnam war would be to diminish seriously the prospects for a nego-
on the Mansfield Amendment as passed by the Senate in the Procurement
In response to your inquiry I should like to give you my.thoughts
Dear Eddie:
a disarray and a weakness of purpose in the American Government.
is repudiated by Congress, this vote of no-confidence will signal abroad
As disturbing however, would be the broader impact if the present
language were ultimately passed. If that essential element of my policy
Dean Acheson has pointed out that in fundamental negotiations,
world powers are not to be persuaded by eloquence or convinced. by
reasoned arguments. They rely on what Stalin used to call the proper
basis of international policy, the calculation of forces; military capa-
bility on the one hand and governmental unity of purpose on the other.
We are now preparing to undertake new initiatives for peace in two
great capitols of the world.
firm support and the substantial and creative contribution of a bipartisan
If these initiatives are to gain positive
results in the months and years ahead, I must be able to rely on the
Congress. I believe that the Mansfield language should be eliminated,
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truly great challenges and opportunities before us.. . Let us begin.
and the whole acrimonious chapter of debate put behind us. We have