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618 Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, Volume XXIX (crackdown) statement on students. 2 He then asked the President if he would grant a favor—the favor being to permit him to serve later on in the year as national coordinator for all of the ethnic groups in America (referred to by Tom as “All-American Groups”). Tom said that he had hundreds of friends among the ethnic groups and that he had worked in this same area several times before. The President agreed that Tom would do a wonderful job in such a capacity and assured his visitor that he would keep the request in mind. He (the President) then turned to me and asked that arrangements be made to send an autographed picture to Tom and his wife, Bessie. 2 References are to the President’s European trip February 25–March 2, and the President’s letter to the President of the University of Notre Dame, February 24. For text of the letter, see Public Papers: Nixon, 1969, p. 141. 243. Memorandum of Conversation 1 PRESENT The President Henry A. Kissinger Maj. Gen. Walters Deputy Prime Minister Pattakos Mr. Daniel Brewster A Washington, March 31, 1969. The Deputy Prime Minister recalled the President’s trip to Greece in 1967 as a private citizen and the good conversation they had at that time. 2 The President said that he also recalled it. Part of the conversation 1 Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, White House Special Files, President’s Office Files, Memoranda for the President. Top Secret; Nodis. The meeting took place in the Yellow Oval Room at the White House. Pattakos also met with Vice President Agnew and Secretary Rogers on April 1. Memoranda of those discussions are ibid., RG 59, Central Files 1967–69, POL 7 GREECE and POL GREECE–US, respectively. A record of a Pattakos–Laird conversation of April 2 is in the Washington National Records Center, RG330, OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 72 A 6309, Greece, 121–333, 1969. A general report on Pattakos’s Washington visit is in telegram 5121 to Athens, April 3. (National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1967–69, POL 7 GREECE) 2 Nixon visited Greece in June 1967 during a trip to Africa and the Middle East. He met with King Constantine and other senior leaders of the junta on June 21.
Greece 619 had been in the garden and part of it in the Deputy Prime Minister’s office. He later talked about his conversation with Tom Pappas. Mr. Pattakos said that things were going well in Greece in spite of what the newspapers said. Greek policy toward the United States was frank and clear. They would continue to be friends even if the United States did nothing for them and they understood the stoppage of arms supplies. They knew the President and also knew that he was a good man. They understood what we were doing in Vietnam and realized that communism had to be fought. They, the Greeks, would fight against it even if no one helped them. The President said there was a new Administration and we were conducting a review of our policies and programs particularly in the field of military assistance. This was being considered in the National Security Council of which Mr. Kissinger was the head. We were aware of the fact that Greece was a strong partner in NATO and had been helpful on Cyprus and other matters. In our dealings with other countries we were principally involved in external affairs rather than in political matters. Mr. Pattakos repeated that Greece would stand with the United States. The U.S. was the Athens of modern times. It must be strong. He had mentioned these matters in a letter which he had written to the President. The U.S. must be strong in order to protect freedom. Greece would stand by her side. He recalled the ancient Greek soldier who had seized hold of a Persian ship and when the Persians cut off his hand he had grasped it with the other hand and then his feet and finally with his teeth at which point the Persians had cut off his head. 3 He told this story to illustrate the determination of the Greeks. The President then asked Mr. Pattakos his opinion of the attitude of the Communist world today. Mr. Pattakos said they were as dangerous as ever and would do everything they could to lull the western world into a sense of security. He told the fable of Esops in which a Lion wanted to marry a man’s daughter and the daughter was afraid of the lion so when the lion came to see the girl’s father, the father explained that the girl was afraid of the lion’s teeth and nails and that if he got rid of them then they could be married. The lion disarmed himself and when in this condition he came back to ask for the girl’s hand, the father easily killed him. 4 This was what the communists were trying to do to the western world. They were using the students as a spearhead. They were only children, smoked marijuana and had little 3 Reference is to an elaboration on a story found in Herodotus. 4 Pattakos was apparently melding together Aesop’s story of Androkles and the Lion with other Greek fables.
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Greece 669 261. Memorandum From the
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