## What The Department Can Expect From Me

- Long hours; hard work.

- Deep involvement in the major issues of foreign policy.

- Challenge to preconceptions; a willingness to listen to argument; positive encouragement of debate.

## NSC System

- The NSC system will remain responsible for pulling together interdepartmental views for the President.

- Thus, you should expect little change in the formal structure of the system, though we may want to make marginal changes after we have more experience with my two-hat role.

- We will all have to feel our way for a while.

- But do not think, now that I am here rather than in the White House, that State will automatically get its way. That will depend on how well we perform.

## USIA, AID, ACDA (Keogh, Williams, Ikle will be present)

- I expect to exercise my obligation of providing foreign policy guidance to AID, ACDA and USIA.

- I will, therefore, expect to be in close personal contact with Keogh, Parker, and Ikle.

- I will want other principal officers of the Department to be working equally closely with each agency.

## Daily Routine

- I will want to meet with you whenever there is a major issue in your field that needs to be aired.

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(b)

-- I will _begin the day at the White House_, and stay there until about 11:00 a.m. each morning.

-- Thus, my schedule will have to be somewhat flexible.

-- I will have a _daily staff meeting each morning_. It will include the principal officers of the Department, the regional Assistant Secretaries, the Director of the Planning and Coordination Staff, and the Executive Secretary.

-- The purpose of these meetings will be to _bring me quickly up to speed_ on immediate top-level operational problems and to exchange views on policy issues. They should be _brief and sharply focussed_.

## The Press and the Congress

-- I am _anxious to avoid confused signals_. Thus, I would appreciate great care with the press until you are used to my thinking and I have had time to absorb your advice and ideas.

-- The same general advice pertains to informal _contacts on the Hill_.

-- Formal appearances, as in the past, should be coordinated through Congressional Relations. On major questions, I will want to talk to you before you appear.

-- My _general philosophy_, with both institutions, will be one of greater openness than in the past.

## My Schedule

-- UNGA - October 4 and 5

-- Pilgrims - October 15

-- China - late October

-- Chiefs-of-Mission meetings in London and Tokyo during the UK and China trips.

## Questions?

(Note: A list of participants is at Tab A.)

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

BRIEFING MEMORANDUM

S/S AMY

September 26, 1973

MEMORANDUM TO: The Secretary

FROM: S/S - Thomas R. Pickering

T. R. Pickering

You have agreed to meet with senior staff of the Department on Thursday, September 27, at 3:00 p.m. in your Conference Room. ACDA, AID and USIA will also be represented. The following will attend:

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

William J. Porter

Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance (and Acting Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management)

Curtis W. Tarr

Legal Adviser

Mark B. Feldman, Acting

Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

Joseph J. Sisco

Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs

David Popper

Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs and U.S. Coordinator, Alliance for Progress

Jack B. Kubisch

Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Richard L. Sneider, Acting

Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs

Julius L. Katz, Acting

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Assistant Secretary for Educa-
tional and Cultural Affairs
John Richardson, Jr.

Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
David D. Newsom

Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.

Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
Carol C. Laise
(Nominated)

Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations
Marshall Wright

Deputy Inspector General, Foreign Assistance
Joseph S. Brown,
Acting

Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs
Barbara Watson

Chief of Protocol
Marion H. Smoak,
Acting

Director, Bureau of Inter-
national Scientific and Tech-
nological Affairs
John Granger,
Acting

Director of Politico-Military Affairs
Seymour Weiss

Director of Planning and Coordination Staff
James Sutterlin

Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Ray Cline

Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department
Thomas R. Pickering

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Press Relations and Special Assistant to the Secretary
Ambassador Robert J. McCloskey

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<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Director General of the Foreign Service</td>
    <td>William O. Hall</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Special Assistant to the Secretary for Refugee and Migration Affairs</td>
    <td>Louis A. Wiesner, Acting</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for International Narcotics Matters</td>
    <td>William Handley</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Inspector General, Foreign Service</td>
    <td>Thomas W. McElhiney</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Director of the Foreign Service Institute</td>
    <td>Howard E. Sollenberger</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ambassador at Large</td>
    <td>Ellsworth Bunker</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency</td>
    <td>Fred C. Ikle</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Deputy Administrator for the Agency for International Development</td>
    <td>Maurice Williams</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Director for the U.S. Information Agency</td>
    <td>Eugene P. Kopp, Acting</td>
  </tr>
</table>

# TALKING POINTS -- MEETING WITH SENIOR OFFICERS

## General

- I will be meeting with all Department personnel tomorrow, but I want to talk with you first.

- I will be looking to all of you, under Ken Rush's leadership, for imagination, guidance, and support. What I hope to do here in State will only succeed if we all work together as a team.

- The Assistant Secretaries will be key to the way I operate. I will look to them for imagination and effective management.

## Rush

- My relationship with Rush will be one of partnership. He will be my alter ego in the work of the Department and will take on much of the responsibility for managing its work.

- I intend to keep him fully informed of everything I am doing. He and I will then decide who else must be cut in.

- You, also, can expect to be informed and consulted on all issues in your area of responsibility.

## The Department

- As to the work of the Department, the test must be excellence.

- We will establish our predominance only if we work better and harder than anyone else. Not because some organization chart or directive establishes State's preeminence in foreign affairs.

-- I expect to exercise my obligation of providing foreign policy guidance to AID, ACDA and USIA.

-- I will, therefore, expect to be in close personal contact with Keogh, Parker, and Ikle.

-- I will want other principal officers of the Department to be working equally closely with each agency.

Daily Routine

-- I will want to meet with you whenever there is a major issue in your field that needs to be aired.

-- But I will look to Rush to oversee the day-to-day business of the Department.

-- I will begin the day at the White House, and stay there until about 11:00 a.m. each morning.

-- I will have a daily staff meeting each morning. It will include the principal officers of the Department, the regional Assistant Secretaries, the Director of the Planning and Coordination Staff, and the Executive Secretary.

-- The purpose of these meetings will be to bring me quickly up to speed on immediate top-level operational problems and to exchange views on policy issues. They should be brief and sharply focussed.

The Press and the Congress

-- I am anxious to avoid confused signals. Thus, I would appreciate great care with the press until you are used to my thinking and I have had time to absorb your advice and ideas.

-- The same general advice pertains to informal contacts on the Hill.