CABLE TO GENERAL SCOWCROFT FROM THE SECRETARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-1-2-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 5, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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S E C R E T/SENSITIVE 1008482 MAY 74 VIA
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MAY 109 1974
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FOR: GENERAL. SCOWCROFT
FROM: THE SECRETARY
4. WARM REGARDS.
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4. Warm regards.
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Report from Scowcroft:
Republican leadership meeting on the budget.
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FROM THE SITUATION ROOM TOHAK 130
TO: AMEMBASSY CAIRO
CITE: WH41244
MAY 9, 1974
TO: JERRY BREMER/PETER RODMAN
FOR: HENRY A. KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
1. THERE WAS A REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP MEETING THIS MORNING
TO DISCUSS THE ECONOMY. THE ONLY ITEM OF INTEREST RELATED
TO DISCUSSION OF THE BUDGET. ASH MENTIONED THAT OF THE
$113 BILLION IN THE BUDGET WHICH WAS NOT RIGIDLY. PROGRAMMED,
$57 BILLION WAS IN DEFENSE, WHICH WE SHOULD PROTECT, AND
THAT LEFT VERY LITTLE DISCRETIONARY FUNDS WHICH COULD BE
CUT. HE THEN WENT ON WITH A HYPOTHETICAL ILLUSTRATION OF A
$5 BILLION CUT, $2 BILLION OF WHICH HE TOOK FROM DEFENSE AND
$3 BILLION FROM A VARIETY OF IDPULAR PROGRAMS WHICH WOULD
HIT THE CONGRESS IN ITS POLITICAL SOLAR PLEXUS. TOWER
RESPONDED THAT WE SHOULD NOT EVEN SUGGEST CUTTING DEFENSE
BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST THING THE CONGRESS WOULD
LOOK AT IN ANY CASE. THERE THEN SEEMED TO DEVELOP A CONSENSUS
IN THE GROUP THAT THE DEFENSE BUDGET WOULD BE UNDER VERY
$EVERIE PRESSURES THIS YEAR IN ORDER TO FINANCE OTHER DOME57-1C
PROGRAMS. THIS FEELING RUNS DIRECTLY COUNTER TO
SCHLESINGER'S ASSUMPTION THAT WE CAN GET WHATEVER FUNDS WE
NEED FOR DEFENSE PROGRAMS. IF IT IS ACCURATE, AND THESE
WERE CONGRESSMEN MOST LIKELY TO SUPPORT DEFENSE, IT
UNDERCUTS ONE OF SCHLESINGER'S PRINCIPAL ARGUMENTS FOR A
TOUGH "WHITE HAT" APPROACH TO THE SOVITS ON SALT.
I HAVE TOLD THEM NOT TO
RESPOND UNTIL I GOT BACT TO THEM. THEY WILL TAILOR TB ANFWEJ
ANY WAY YOU WISH AND I THINK YOU SHOULD USE THIS AS YOU SEE
FIT TO SUPPORT YOUR NEGOTIATING TACK. IHWILL AWAIT YOUR
GUIDANCE.
3. I HAVE TALKED WITH JOHN DUNLOP. HE HAS NOT MADE A FINAL
DECISION AND WILL NOT MAKE ONE WITHOUT FIRST DISCUSSING THE
MATTER WITH YOU. HIS PRESENT THRUST OF MIND IS SOMEWHAT
NEGATIVE, HOWEVER. WHAT HE WOULD LIKE MOST OF ALL IS TO
STAY WITH HIS INFLATION JOB FOR A TIME, IN THE
EVENT THE CONGRESS PASSES LEGISLATION GIVING THE CLC MONITORING
AUTHORITY. HE SAYS HE HAS ALSO TALKED WITH HAIG AND TOLD
HIM HE DID NOT WANT THE CEA JOB AND THAT IF HE DECIDED TO
STAY IN WASHINGTON MORE OCYLESS PERMANENTLY, YOUR JOB OFFER
WAS MOST ATTRACTIVE TO HIM -- BUT THAT HE WOULD MOST LIKE
TO STAY ON FOR A TIME AT CLC, IF CONGRESS MAKES THAT
POSSIBLE.
WARM REGARDS.
MORI/CDF
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