Reproduced from the open files
of the Nixon Presidential
Materials Staff

DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12958, Sect. 3.6

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By KHC NARA, Dated 5/13/04

Telecon
Joe Sisco
3/17/70 2:40 p.m.

K: I talked to the President about this. His feeling is that these
suggestions are basically what he likes. On the other hand, he isn't
prepared to order it. On the second page, that he'd like to have. He
thinks dropping the first sentence on the second paragraph on page one
is a good idea. As for the rest, it's just a question of what it does to
us in a foreign policy point of view. He'd be strongly guided by your
judgments. So you'll talk with your people?

S: Yes, I'll run it by the Secretary.

K: Okay, but don't take it as a Presidential order.

S: No, hardly.

K: Can you let me know by 4:00?

S: I think so.

By: KHLW NARA, Dato 5/12/04

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TWLCON

Vice President/Kissinger

2:45 pm

3/17/70

VP: I had a good meeting this morning with Nelson Rockefeller in which we explored the problems on foreign policy. I agreed with that strongly and mentioned that the intelligence group had been thinking along those lines and said if it could be done as an open society kind of approach in which we would put to the UN.

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K: I laughed because I'm an old friend of his and he used to kill that idea periodically while I was on his staff but I don't reject it as much now.

VP: Infitesimal on public relations.

K: We could make it part of the President's annual report. I don't object in principle.

VP. To use low resolution photographs to show the threat -- yesterday I went to the ______ and they were banging me about MIRV and I said we should start looking at the other side. They don't believe they are ahead of us in ICBM's and nuclear submarines. I think we have to get it to the people. I think we are heading for a new area of confrontation with the left.

K: I agree completely.

VP: Why don't we take the initiative away from them -- maybe a Presidential TV message or something.

K: I will put it to the President, you can be sure of that.

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By KML NARA, Dato 5/12/04

TELCON
Packard/Kissinger

2:57 pm

3/17/70

P: I just wanted to tell you that we are taking some actions on this Williams case. After listening to Gen. Clay I have come to the conclusion that we should issue orders to Williams as an administrative procedure. We can mark delay this for 30 days and give him advice to keep him going.

K: If you had asked me, that would be my recommendation. I told the President that you were probably going to do that.

P: I think it will work out and I have everything ready to go. One other question. I'm concerned about ? ? ?

K: Right. I will try to get the President to call.

P: The problem is that we have so many issues with Canada we should not do something with Trudeau but not back him into a corner not with things like overflight rights. Do you know when the President will address this issue?

K: I'm trying for this week.

P: Elliott and I are not together. My feeling is that we have to do something for the international regime. I have been talking on the Hill -- Sen. Jackson especially. If Elliott and I cannot agree I will send both to the President so he can see both sides. Maybe we should all get together before it goes to the President

K: Let's do that after the paper is (over ?).

P: It's a very complex issue. We are going to be in a hell of a mess.

K: I will try to get the President to make the call.

By: KHL NARA, Dato 5/12/04

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Telecon
Joe Sicso

3/17/703:55 p. m.

S: The Secretary feels that those two others are really _______.
Taking away what you are giving to another.

K: Which two formulations?

S: The two I showed you. He prefers the one in the memo you sent to us. He suggests changes in the private paragraph. They would strengthen it in the direction the President wants but not make it inconsistent with the public statement.

K: How amusing the President and putting the word "peace" in?

S: That's all right, and strike out the sentence in the first paragraph... Strike out "within the next few months." Start "we will want to review with the Israelis at an early date..." Strike the numbers. Keep it open-ended. That way it's less restrictive to the Israelis. He doesn't want to use the word "secret" although he will use it orally. Say it "should be handled with the same discretion as in the earlier case of the _______ contract." They will know what we mean. In the public statement, in the first sentence, put "military" in frong of "aircraft." Delete the first sentence in the second paragraph. In the last line, say "affirmatively" for "positively." He thinks the Presidential change was very good on the next page.

K: What if we don't want to change the memo, and leave it as it is?

S: That would be all right too. We are prepared to take live with it just as you sent it.

K: Supposing we take out the number, what would you say orally?

S: Leave it open-ended. It's better from an Israeli point of view that way. What he has in mind is to announce it at a press conference on Friday, at noon.

K: Good.

S: He would meet with Congressional leadership at 9:00 or 9:30 on that morning.

K: Right.

S: He would call in Rabin at 11:00 a.m. that morning. And he would call in Dobrynin at 4:00 that afternoon.

By KHC NARA, Date 5/12/04

Telecon
Joe Sisco
3/17/70 3:55 p.m.

page 2

K: Right.

S: In the meantime we will have sent out cables. Wally will have informed Golda.

K: The President will not want to send a letter.

S: That's all right. We will operate on the assumption of no letter. You give us the go-ahead, and we'll put everything in front of you.

K: Okay.