May 27, 1974

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The President's day began at Key Biscayne, Florida

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• Radio Address on Memorial Day.

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• Annotated and Unmarked News Summaries [Note: Although there was no News Summary on this date, due to the way News Summary products were compiled, you should also consult nearby days for potentially relevant materials.]

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• President's Daily Brief of 27 May 1974

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Vol. XXVI, Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1974-1976

Syrian-Israeli Disengagement Agreement, January-May 1974

• 74. Memorandum of Conversation, Damascus, May 27, 1974, 12:15-2:22 a.m.

  Source: National Archives, RG 59, Records of Henry Kissinger, 1973–77, Box 21, Classified External Memcons, November 1974, Folder 2. Secret; Nodis. The meeting was held in the Presidential Palace and occurred on May 27, not May 26–27 as indicated on the original. Brackets are in the original. Previously, on May 26, Kissinger met with the Israeli negotiating team from 9:15 a.m. until noon at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem (memorandum of conversation; ibid., Box 8, Nodis Memcons, May 1974, Folder 10) and with Asad from 9 p.m. to midnight in Damascus (memorandum of conversation; Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Kissinger Papers, CL 193, Peace Negotiations, Israeli-Syrian Relations, Negotiation Books, Volume III, May 1974, Folder 2). In these meetings, the final details of the agreement were discussed.

• 75. Memorandum of Conversation, Damascus, May 27, 1974, 9:50 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, RG 59, Records of Henry Kissinger, 1973–77, Box 21, Classified External Memcons, November 1974, Folder 2. Secret; Sensitive; Nodis. The meeting was held at the Presidential Palace in Damascus.

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P - Formal Presidential Remarks

• WHCA-SR-P-740522
  Remarks by President Nixon in a live radio Memorial Day address from Key Biscayne. (5/27/1974, Key Biscayne, Florida)
  
  Runtime: 0:13:03
  
  Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by RMM (initials of WHCA engineer)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

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• WHCA-6965
  "Washington Straight Talk". James McCord, Jack Caulfield.
  CBS
  Runtime: 00:29:40
• WHCA-6972
  Weekly News Summary, Tape I.
  ALL NETWORKS
  Runtime: 1:30
  
  1. Reasoner/Dunsmore: Secretary of State Kissinger fails in disengagement. Time Code Start: 00:00. Keywords: cabinet, advisors. Network: ABC.
  
  2. Smith/Schoumacher: Hush money interview with E. Howard Hunt. Time Code Start: 01:25. Keywords: national security, intelligence gathering, covert activities, spying, espionage, Watergate, Senate committee hearings, investigations, testimony, testify, cover-ups, break-in, burglary, theft, plumbers, scandals. Network: ABC.
  
  3. Smith/Kaplow: Archibald Cox on President Nixon. Time Code Start: 05:20. Keywords: law officials, firings, courts, trials, investigations, prosecutions, bugging, bugs, wiretapping, wire taps, surveillance, spying, Watergate, hearings, burglary, impeachment, resignations, recordings. Network: ABC.
  
  4. Smith/Zimmerman: President Nixon's radio address; Vice President Gerald Ford at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Time Code Start: 07:20. Keywords: Presidents, speeches, radio, broadcasts, Vice Presidents, travel, trips, military, cemeteries. Network: ABC.
  
  5. Smith: Commentary on aiding veterans. Time Code Start: 09:48. Keywords: military, troops, medical care, hospitals, benefits, insurance. Network: ABC.
  
  6. Chancellor/Valeriani: Secretary of State Kissinger fails at disengagement. Time Code Start: 11:30. Keywords: cabinet, advisors. Network: NBC.
  
  7. Chancellor/Stern: Ziegler statement and Impeachment Committee. Time Code Start: 13:14. Keywords: Presidents, Watergate, Senate committee hearings, investigations, impeachment. Network: NBC.
  
  8. Chancellor/Brinkley: Commentary Federal Reserve Board Arthur Burns pessimistic on continued Inflation, White House responds with opposite opinion. Time Code Start: 15:30. Keywords: economy, economics, budgets, finances, recession, inflation, money, wages, costs, unemployment, prices. Network: NBC.
  
  9. Chancellor: President Nixon's radio address; Vice President Gerald Ford at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Time Code Start: 17:53. Keywords: Presidents, speeches, radio, broadcasts, Vice Presidents, travel, trips, military, cemeteries. Network: NBC.
  
  10. Cronkite/Kalb: Secretary of State Kissinger. Time Code Start: 20:00. Keywords: cabinet, advisors. Network: CBS.
  
  11. Cronkite/Graham: Archibald Cox on President Nixon. Time Code Start: 21:36. Keywords: law officials, firings, courts, trials, investigations, prosecutions, bugging, bugs, wiretapping, wire taps, surveillance, spying, Watergate, hearings, burglary, impeachment, resignations, recordings. Network: CBS.
  
  12. Cronkite/Jones: Subpoena refusal controversy. Time Code Start: 23:33. Keywords: bugging, bugs, wiretapping, wire taps, surveillance, spying, recordings, Watergate, Senate committee hearings, investigations, testimony, testify, cover-ups, scandals, impeachment, resignations. Network: CBS.
  
  13. Cronkite/Herman: Memorial Day and Vice President Gerald Ford at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Time Code Start: 25:33. Keywords: Vice Presidents, travel, trips, speeches, military, Armed Forces, memorials, burials, cemeteries, commemorations. Network: CBS.
  
  14. Cronkite/Sevareid: Commentary on President Nixon's President' Memorial Day radio address. Time Code Start: 27:13. Keywords: Presidents, military, holidays, speeches, radio, broadcasts. Network: CBS.

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