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...clearest publicity gimmick of all. Reducing Kissinger's power slightly helps to project Ford as a take-charge president, a president who's not letting anybody else run the show or get out of hand. But meanwhile, the secretary's national security job goes to General Brent Scowcroft, a devoted disciple unlikely to challenge his policies. Kissinger is thereby appeased, and in fact probably pleased by the entire transition, which eliminates his nemesis Schlesinger and replaces him with a completely non-ideological political appointee, Donald Rumsfeld. And reducing Kissinger's power, even superficially, does have its appeal to Republican hard...
After pondering the news during his routine half hour of exercises, Ford discussed it with Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, deputy director of the National Security Council. At noon, the President met for 45 minutes in the Cabinet Room with two members of the NSC, Kissinger and Defense Secretary Schlesinger, and with CIA Director William Colby and Air Force Chief of Staff General David C. Jones; Jones was substituting for Joint Chiefs' Chairman General George S. Brown, who was in Europe on a NATO inspection trip...
TUESDAY. At 2:25 a.m., Scowcroft awakened the President to tell him that the Cambodians were towing the Mayaguez toward the mainland. By morning, however, Ford learned that the Cambodians had anchored at Koh Tang, a 3-mi. by 2-mi. jungle islet about 34 miles off the port of Kompong Som (also known as Sihanoukville). That was encouraging news to Ford; rescue would be more difficult if the crew had been taken to the mainland...
...Tang, the U.S. helicopters waited for darkness to make it easier to evade Cambodian fire and then began pulling out the Marines. In Washington at 9:55 a.m., Scowcroft told Ford: "Mr. President, we are reasonably sure that all of the Marines are out." The casualty count was five dead, 70 to 80 wounded and 16 missing and presumed dead after a damaged helicopter crashed into the gulf. A few hours later, all of the Marines left Utapao and returned to Okinawa, thus meeting the Thai deadline for getting...
News of the destruction of the C-130 and the Marines' deaths reached President Ford during a meeting with his energy and economic advisers. He scribbled a note to the deputy director of the National Security Council, Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft: "We'd better have an N.S.C. meeting...