Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXV, South Asia

448. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow) to President Johnson¹

Washington, July 21, 1967, 5:25 p.m.

Mr. President:

In the attached, Messrs. Schultze, Freeman and Gaud² recommend that you authorize an agreement for one million tons of PL–480 wheat for Pakistan. (The agreement would also contain small quantities of tallow, oil, cotton and dry milk.) This wheat was part of the package you approved as our pledge at the May meeting of the Pakistan Aid Consortium.

Schultze’s memorandum (Tab A) gives a good summary of the case for the agreement and the things the Paks have agreed to do in return—including buying most of their commercial wheat purchases from the United States.

I recommend you approve.

Walt

Approve³

Disapprove

Speak to me

1. Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Country File, Pakistan, Vol. VII, Memos, 10/66–7/67. Confidential.
2. Reference is to a July 5 memorandum to the President from Freeman and Gaud, and a July 11 memorandum to the President from Schultze.
3. Johnson checked this option and added a handwritten notation that reads: “Notify new ambassador Oehlert who is still here.”