This movement of the "Enterprise" drew a private rebuke by the President of South Korea Park Chung-hee to U.S. Ambassador William J. Porter on 8 February 1968. However, this Kosygin-Johnson exchange enabled General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev to make a subsequent face-saving statement to the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that the United States had responded to the Soviet letter by withdrawing the "Enterprise".