MCGEE IS NOW IN MEXICO CITY WITH KISSINGER FOR THE HEMISPHERE FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-175-6-7-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02: LOC-HAK-175-6-7-4
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NICHTLEAD FISSINCER 2 T`!A.SHIN TON'.
MCGEE IS "'Al IN MEXICO CITY WITH VISSINCER FOR
THE HE'ISFHERE FC;-i If"N MINISTERS MEETINq WHICH BEGAN YESTERDAY.
HIS CO"^ENTS ON THE STAR-NETS REPORT, RELAYED PY AN AIDE
HERE, A?cLA -ED, TO =~E FALL SHORT OF AN OUTRIGHT DENIAL: OF THE
NEWSPAPERS ACCOUNT OF HIS CONVERSATION WITH THE SECRETARY
OF STATE.
ACCORD!N' TO THE AIDE, THE CONVERSATION WAS A HYPOTHETICAL
ONE POSING THE 0I!FSTION OF WHETHER ANYONE IN GOVERNMENT COULD
BE INDISPENSABLE.
HE SAID TuE "'!-ESTION HAD 2EEN RAISED BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
WHO FELT THAT VISSING'ER SHOULD REMAIN IN OFFICE IF NIXON
WERE IMPEADHED AND THE SENATE WERE TO THEN DECIDE THE PRESIDENT
SHOULD BE REMOVED.
CONrPESSYAN FORSYTHE, A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE, SAID THAT IN THE CONVERSATION KISSINGER INDICATED
THERE WOULD BE A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION INTERNATIONALLY IF
PRESIDENT NIXON RESIGNED OR WERE IMPEACHED AND FOUND GUILTY BY
THE SENATE.
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NIGHTLEAD KISSINGER
BY WILLIAM SCALLY
WASHINGTON, FEB. 21, REUTER -- SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY
KISSINGER WAS REPORTED TODAY TO HAVE TOLD A SENATOR HE WOULD
RESIGN IF PRESIDENT NIXON WERE IMPEACHED.
BUT THE SENATOR, DEMOCRAT GALE MCGEE OF -a-YOMING, SAID THE
WASHINrTON STAR-NEWS REPORT HAD QUOTED HIM OUT OF CONTEXT AND
KISSINGER WAS TALKING ABOUT A HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION.
THE STAR-NEWS QUOTED MCGEE AS SAYING KISSINGER
MADE THE STATEMENT TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ON HIS PLANE DURING
A RECENT TRIP TO PANAMA.
ACCORDING TO THE NEWSPAPER, KISSINGER SAID HE WOULD
RESIGN IF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VOTED TO IMPEACH
PRESIDENT NIXON OVER WATER,GGATE AND WOULD NOT TAIT FOR THE
RESULT!-,N,"- TRIAL PY THE SENATE.
ANOTHER MEMBER OF CONGRESS ON THE PLANE WITH KISSINGER
DURING THE CONVERSATION, REP. EDWIN FORSYTHE (R-N.J.)
DENIED THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAD SAID HE WOULD
RESIGN. FORSYTHE SAID KISSING-ER HAD INDICATED NE WOULD
NOT ABANDON HIS COUNTRY" - WHICH HE TOOK TO MEAN HE WOULD
STAY IN OFFICE.
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LATIN 2-21
DAY L r) BY JUAN J. WALTE rL.
MEXICO CITY CUPI) -- SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER, IN HI:
FIRST MAJOR LATIN AMERICAN POLICY SPEECH, WAS EXPECTED OF ANY DRAMATIC, NEW PROGRAMS AT A CONFERENCE OF SKEPTICALAWESTERNL
HEMISPHERE FOREIGN MINISTERS.
KISSINGF'R'S WENT BEFORE THE OPENING SESSION OF THE THREE-DAY
CONFERENCE IN RESPONSE TO PROPOSALS BY TWO DOZEN LATIN AMERICAN
FOREIGN MINISTERS ON THE FUTURE SHAPE OF HF' IISPHE RIC RELATIONS.
U.S. OFFICIALS SAID THE SECRETARY WAS NOT LIKELY TO PROPOSE ANY
MAJOR NW LATIN AMERICAN PROGRAMS, BUT INSTEAD WOULD GIVE "FRANK
ANSWERS" TO THE 24 FORFIGN iMMINISTERS' PROPOSALS.
DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID KISSINGER, ALTHOUGH A KEY ATTRACTION AT
THE TALKS, FACED A SLIGHTLY SKEPTICAL AUDIENCE IN OUTLINING
WASHIPNGTO;N' S IDEAS ABOUT A "NEW DIALOGUE" WITH LATIN AMERICA.
`THE SECRETARY WAS SCHEDULED TO APPRESS THE CONFERENCE FOLLOWING AN
OPENING SPEECH BY MEXICAN PRESIDENT LUIS ECHEVERRIA. COLOMBIAN
FOREIGN MINISTER ALFEREDO VAZQUEZ CARRIZOSA WAS TO SPEAK FOR THE LATIN
AMERICAN DIPLOMATS.
KISSINGER WAS ALSO EXPECTED TO SPEAK ABOUT THE FNIFFGY CRISIS AND
THE IMPACT OF HIGH OIL PRICES ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.' HE WAS LIKELY
TO DISCUSS MAJOR WORLD PROD LE! S, SUCH AS THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS,
WHICH HAS TAKEN UP MUCH OF HIS TIME IN RECENT MONTHS.
THE LATIN AMERICAN MINISTERS HAVE BEEN "'FETING IN MEXICO CITY
SINCE MONDAY, DRAWING UP THE EIGHT-POINT AGENDA PROPOSED STY
KISSINGEN. THE HAIN SUBJECTS WERE ECONOMIC MATTERS, SUCH AS
DEVELOPMENT ATD, TRADE PREFERENCES, TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE
ROLE. OF "MULTI NATIO";'AL CORPORATIONS.
KISSINGER FLEW TO MEXICO WEDNESDAY AFTER TWO DAYS OF MEETIN. S IN
WASHINGTON WITH ARAB FOREIGN M'I-NISTERS. r,
THE MIDDLE EAST h' ~ HE WAS sCHE~.ULED? TO FLY TO
QNDAY IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET TROOP SEPARATION TALKS
STARTED BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA.
"'W'E ARE HOPEFUL BECAUSE WE HAVE COME HERE IN A NEW SPIRIT AND WE
ARE ASSEMBLED HERE ALSO BECAUSE OF A NEW IPMP
EnATIVE, THE
INTERDEPENDENCE OF NATIONS," KISSINGER SAID IN AN ARRIVAL STATEMENT.
THE U.S. GOVFHNa !ENT RECENTLY DEFUSED TWO POTENTIALLY TROUBLESOME
ISSUES--THE' HETUF N OF THE PANAMA CANAL AND PERUVIAN NATIONALIZATION
OF AMERICAN COMPANIES,
AMERICA SIGNED A DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES FEB. G EFI!G
EVENTUAL RETURN OF THE WATERWAY TO PANAMA. IT SIGNED 7 $76 LO THE
PACT LAST TUESDAY ENDING A FIVE-YEAR DISPUTE WITHPERU OVEnION
COMPENSATION FOR EXPROPRIATED FIRMS.
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