Water for Peace
162. Memorandum From Charles E. Johnson of the National Security Council Staff to the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council’s Special Committee on the Middle East Crisis (Bundy)
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Name File, C. Johnson Memos, Box 5. No classification marking. A copy was sent to Bromley Smith.
163. Memorandum From the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (Seaborg) to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, NSC Special Committee Files, Desalination. Confidential. A copy was sent to McGeorge Bundy. A handwritten note on the source text reads “to Bator per our conversation.”
164. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, NSC Special Committee Files, Special Committee, #2, July 1, 1967–July 31, 1967 [2 of 2]. No classification marking. A copy was sent to Harold Saunders.
165. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for Science and Technology (Hornig) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, NSC Special Committee Files, NSC Special Committee, #2, July 1, 1967–July 31, 1967 [1 of 2]. No classification marking. Copies were sent to Rostow and Bundy.
166. Memorandum From Admiral Lewis J. Strauss to Former President Eisenhower
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Charles E. Johnson Files, Box 21. No classification marking. The source text is a copy of the memorandum that Strauss gave to former President Eisenhower on June 23, which the White House did not receive until July 27 when Hornig met with Strauss (see footnote 4, Document 165). An attached cover letter from Strauss to Hornig, July 28, reads: “This is a legible copy of the memorandum we discussed yesterday and which you wanted to show to the President. I hope to follow it up on Monday [July 31] with a memorandum in the brief form that you thought might be acceptable with the cost and other calculations ‘omitting the tables.’ I very much enjoyed my talk with you and Dr. Smith.” No memorandum of July 31 by Strauss has been found.
167. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council’s Special Committee on the Middle East Crisis (Bundy) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, NSC Special Committee Files, Desalination. Secret. Sent through Rostow.
169. Memorandum From Harold Saunders of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow)
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Desalting Projects, Vol. II. Secret. Copies were sent to John Walsh, Alan Novak, Lucius Battle, and Robert Woodward. A handwritten note by Saunders next to their names reads: “I’ll send these as a means of spelling out the problem after we’ve talked.”
170. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Desalting Projects, Vol. II. Confidential.
172. Letter From the Coordinator of the Israeli Power and Desalting Project (Woods) to the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow)
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Desalting Projects, Vol. I. Personal and Confidential. A covering memorandum from Saunders to Rostow, September 20, reads: “As you will see on rereading the attached, George Woods has come around to the view that we should put aside much of our effort to make the Israeli desalting plant look economical and frankly admit that it would be a research and development project. He is even thinking about the possibility of an Indus type international consortium to finance such experimentation. This fresh approach is probably healthy although the economic work is still necessary, since we will have to determine costs whatever we do. The operational question is whether the time has come to put this up to the President as a recommendation and to begin discussing procedures with the Israelis so that the President might frame a proposal for Congress in their departing legislative program.”
173. Action Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Rostow) to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Records of the Department of State, Central Files, 1967–69, E 11–3 ISRAEL. Confidential; Exdis. Drafted by Dean Peterson and T. Childs (M/WP) and cleared by Davies (NEA), Torbert (H), Gaud (AID), and Pollack.
174. Memorandum From Harold Saunders of the National Security Council Staff to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Desalting Projects, Vol. II. Confidential; Exdis.