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346. Memorandum of Conversation, Washington, April 13, 1976, 11:08–11:30 a.m.1 2

Washington, April 13, 1976, 11:08–11:30 a.m.

MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION

PARTICIPANTS:

  • President Ford
  • Carlos P. Romulo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, The Philippines
  • Secretary Kissinger
  • Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Amb. Eduardo Romualdez, Philippine Ambassador
  • Juan Ponce Enrile, Secretary of Defense
  • Amb. Philip C. Habib, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • Amb. William H. Sullivan, US Ambassador to the Philippines

DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, April 13, 1976
11:08 - 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: The Oval Office

[The press enters and takes photographs. There is discussion of the President’s wartime experience in the Philippines. The press departs.

Romulo: I have been asked by the President to express his greetings, and he hopes for a successful negotiation.

The President: Please convey my greetings to the President and Mrs. Marcos and my thanks for a marvelous greeting and my visit. I am going to return to play golf sometime.

Romulo: The President asked us not to do anything which would interfere with your reelection.

The President: That is very thoughtful.

  1. Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Memoranda of Conversation, April 13, 1976. Secret; Nodis. The meeting was held in the Oval Office. Ford’s talking points from Scowcroft, which the President saw, assert that the meeting “is meant as a courtesy call to welcome Secretary Romulo to the United States and to underline the importance you attach to our military base negotiations which began on April 12, as well as our bilateral economic negotiations which started March 29.”↩
  2. Ford, Romulo, and Kissinger discussed U.S. politics and the base negotiations.↩