CABLE TO SECRETARY KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-261-6-73-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: October 28, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/11/17: LOC-HAK-261-6-73-5
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FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO AMFM9ASSY NEW DELHI
S E C R E T EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY
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PLEASE PASS TO GOMPERT/BREMER FOR THE SECRETARY
OCTOBER 23, 1974
FOR: SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
DELIVER OPF('fI NG OF BUSINESS
1. REFERENCE HAKTO 42, BEFORE I TELL RUMSFELD THAT
YOU ARE "ASTONISHED BY WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID ABOUT THE
THREAT DEMOCRATS MIGHT POSE TO PEACE" I THOUGHT YOU SHOULD
KNOW THAT THAT IS NOT AT ALL WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID. IN
THIS INSTANCE (NOT EXACTLY UNIQUE), WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID
AND WHAT THE PRESS REPORTED BEAR ONLY MODEST RESEMBLANCE
TO EACH OTHER. IN FACT, THE PRESIDENT EXPLICITLY PRAISED
THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP OF THE CONGRESS AND THE
BIPARTISAN TRADITION. WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO CONVEY WAS THAT
A LANDSLIDE VOTE WHICH WOULD ELECT A VETO-PROOF CONGRESS
WOULD ALSO BT THE KIND OF VOTE LIKELY TO RETURN A HIGHER
PERCENTAGE OF "RADICALS' OR AT LEAST THOSE LESS ORIENTED
TO OUR FOREIGN POLICY GOALS. A CONGRESS OF THAT COMPLEXITY
OVER WHICH HE HAD LOST ALL CONTROL THROUGH THE VETO
COULD, HE SAID, POSE A THREAT TO PEACE. THAT IS ADMITTEDLY
A COMPLEX POINT TO GET ACROSS AND HE DID SO WITH INDIFFERENT
SUCCESS AT BEST, BUT I AM NOT SURF IT IS A POINT AT WHICH
YOU SHOULD REGISTER "ASTONISHMENT." AS A MATTER OF FACT,.
I SUSPECT HE WAS REALLY TRYING TO DRIVE HOME THE POINT
ILLUSTRATED BY THE VOTE ON TURKISH AID.
2. I WILL RAISE THE MATTER WITH RUMSFELD FIRST THING
I1 THE MORNING, WITH OR WITHOUT POINT ONE, AS YOU CHOOSE.
WARM REGARDS.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/11/17 : LOC-HAK-261-6-73-5