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Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant to the President (Butterfield) to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, July 14, 1969
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Washington, July 14, 1969
Butterfield reported that the President, after reading in his daily news summary an advertisement placed in the New York Times by “Americans for Biafran Relief,” stated that he agreed with it and that he (not State) should do something about Biafra.
Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 742, Country Files, Africa, Nigeria, Vol. I. No classification marking. An attached, but unpublished, memorandum from the Staff Secretary to Kissinger, July 15, asked that a plan of Presidential actions be submitted. A handwritten note on the memorandum states, “ROGER MORRIS is preparing plan for HAK's approval, Aug 5.”
Butterfield reported that the President, after reading in his daily news summary an advertisement placed in the New York Times by “Americans for Biafran Relief,” stated that he agreed with it and that he (not State) should do something about Biafra.
Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 742, Country Files, Africa, Nigeria, Vol. I. No classification marking. An attached, but unpublished, memorandum from the Staff Secretary to Kissinger, July 15, asked that a plan of Presidential actions be submitted. A handwritten note on the memorandum states, “ROGER MORRIS is preparing plan for HAK's approval, Aug 5.”
Biafran War Database.
Editor: Azuka Nzegwu.
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