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60
   Memorandum, Holdridge to Kissinger, 1 March 1973, National Security Council,
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 27.

61
   Memorandum, Marshall Green to William Rogers, Department of State, 3 March 1973,
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 28.

62
   Memorandum of Conversation, Hugh Appling (Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy Canberra) with KCO Shann (Deputy Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs), 28 February 1973, Records of the American Embassy Canberra, Classified Subject Files, 1949–77, Box 70, RG 84, NARA.

63
   Tom Uren,
Straight Left
(Sydney: Random House, 1995), p. 223.

64
   
Age
, 5 January 1973.

65
   Memorandum of Conversation, Heath and Nixon, Washington, 1 February 1973, PREM 15/1978, TNA.

66
   Memorandum of Conversation, The President, Secretary of Defense, Major General Brent Scowcroft, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at The Pentagon, 15 February 1973, NSC Presidential/HAK Memoranda of Conversations, Box 1026, RNL.

67
   Despatch from Lord Cromer, British Ambassador to the US, ‘The United States and Vietnam', 2 February 1973, FCO 15/1832, TNA.

68
   Memorandum, Secretary of State to the President, 16 March 1973, in
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 29.

69
   Intelligence Memorandum, ‘Australia: The New Team', Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, no. 1618/73, 11 January 1973, CIA Records, NARA.

70
   Record of Conversation, Lord Carrington, British Secretary of State for Defence with Assistant Secretary of State Rush, 16 February 1973, FCO 24/1549, TNA.

Chapter 8: American ‘Trouble Shooter': Marshall Green Comes to Canberra

1
    EGW, quoted in
NewYork Times
, 11 March 1973.

2
    Cited in Marshall Green,
Pacific Encounters: Recollections and Humour
(Maryland: Dacor Press, 1997), p. 136.

3
    Interview with Marshall Green, 2 March 1995, Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training,
www.memory.loc.gov
, accessed 10 August 2010.

4
    Stephen Ambrose,
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973–1990
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), p. 154.

5
    RN,
Memoirs
, p. 791.

6
    RN, Address to the Nation, Oval Office, 29 March 1973, in
Public Papers of the Presidents
(1973), pp. 234–8.

7
    Ambrose,
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery
, pp. 137ff

8
    Ibid., p. 156.

9
    Alistair Horne,
Kissinger's Year
, p. 97.

10
   
NewYork Times
, 11 March 1973.

11
   Marshall Green,
Pacific Encounters
, foreword is by John Stewart Service.

12
   Quoted in
Melbourne Herald
, 26 May 1973.

13
   
National Times
(Australia), 27 January 1975.

14
   Green, Interview with Charles Stuart Kennedy, 2 March 1995, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Foreign Affairs Oral History Project, at
www.memory.loc.gov
, accessed 12 June 2011.

15
   Quoted in Green, Interview with Charles Stuart Kennedy, 2 March 1995.

16
   Green,
Pacific Encounters
, pp. 19–23.

17
   Green, Interview with Charles Stuart Kennedy, 2 March 1995.

18
   Green, Interview with Charles Stuart Kennedy, 17 March 1995.

19
   Green, Memorandum to the President, ‘The President's Trip through Asia', July 1969; Box 2, Folder 16, Marshall Green Papers (Hoover Institution, Stanford) hereafter MGP. The memorandum was preceded by a cover note to Kissinger.

20
   Memorandum, Green to Kissinger, ‘A View of East Asia'; 21 April 1969, Box 9, Folder 1, MGP.

21
   Memorandum, Green to Kissinger, ‘A New Approach in East Asia', 28 August 1969, Box 4, Folder 18, MGP.

22
   
The Age
, 30 May 1973;
New York Times
, undated, likely May 1973, Box 8, Folder 6, MGP.

23
   Record of Conversation, Gordon Freeth (Australian Ambassador to Japan) with Richard Schneider, 23 July 1973, A1838, 250/9/1, Part 15, NAA; Speech by Marshall Green, ‘US Policies in a Changing East Asia', Canberra, 14 June 1973, transcript; Record of Conversation, Kissinger and Marshall Green, Washington, 6 August 1973, in Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, VIP visits, Box 910, RNL.

24
   Interview with Marshall Green, 2 March 1995, Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training,
www.memory.loc.gov
, accessed 10 August 2010. On Green's request for reassignment back to Washington, see Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Marshall Green, Washington, 6 August 1973, in NSC Files, VIP visits, Box 910, RNL. Whitlam, with his penchant for hyperbole, went on to argue that Green was ‘virtually expelled from the Administration': EGW,
The Whitlam Government
, p. 47.

25
   Meaney, ‘The United States', p. 187.

26
   Memorandum, Green to Secretary of State, ‘Australia and New Zealand: Prospects', Washington, 30 December 1972, SNF, 1970–73, Box 2106, RG 59, NARA.

27
   Memorandum for Marshall Green, Meeting with Australian Journalists Samuels and Brenchly, 19 March 1973, Papers of the Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (ASSEAPA), Box 32, Lot 74D741, RG 59, NARA.

28
   Memorandum of Conversation, Marshall Green and Berndt Von Staden, 21 May 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2109, RG 59, NARA.

29
   See
Chapter 5
, p. 137.

30
   Correspondence, B Peters (British High Commission) to JK Hickman (FCO), 19 June 1973, FCO 24/1604, TNA.

31
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Peter Wilenski, 2 May 1973,
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 30.

32
   Jeremy Suri,
Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente
(Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 233.

33
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Peter Wilenski, 2 May 1973.

34
   Correspondence, Wilenski to Kissinger, 8 May 1973; Kissinger to Wilenski, 28 May 1973; Wilenski to Kissinger, 12 June 1973, NSC Files, Presidential Correspondence (1969–74), Box 748, RNL.

35
   
Melbourne Herald
, 26 May 1973.

36
   
CPD
, H of R, 24 May 1973, p 2644.

37
   Record of Conversation, W Peters (FCO) with BA Santamaria on US/Australia Relations, 11 May 1973, FCO 16/1604, TNA.

38
   
Bulletin
, 9 June 1973.

39
   
National Times
, 27 May 1973, in A1838, 250/9/1, Part 15, NAA.

40
   SMH, 30 May 1973, in A1838, 250/9/1, Part 15, NAA.

41
   
CPD
, H of R, 30 May 1973,

42
   Whitlam, quoted in biographic portrait, ‘Meeting with Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam', n.d., NSC Files, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

43
   
Age
, 30 May 1973.

44
   
AFR
, 1 June 1973;
Courier-Mail
, 30 May 1973.

45
   SMH, 1 June 1973.

46
   
NewYork Times
, 28 May 1973.

47
   
NewYork Times
, 20 June 1973.

48
   Telegram 3139, Green to Secretary of State, 6 June 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2109, RG 59, NARA.

49
   Telegram 3228, US Embassy Canberra to Secretary of State, 12 June 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2108, RG 59, NARA.

50
   Ibid.

51
   Ibid.

52
   Correspondence, BM Snedden and JD Anthony to The President, 14 June 1973, in Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 910, NARA.

53
   Memorandum of Conversation, Andrew Peacock MP with Under-Secretary William J Porter, Washington, 15 June 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2105, RG 59, NARA. See also Telegram 23586. For Ambassador Green from Sneider, ‘Peacock Visit', 22 June 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2105, RG 59, NARA.

54
   Peacock's recollections are in Jeremy Hearder's
Jim Plim Ambassador Extraordinary: A Life of Sir James Plimsoll
(Melbourne: Connor Court Publishing, 2015). Hearder recounts that ‘the next day, Bush, after accompanying Nixon on a plane flight, phoned Peacock to say that Nixon had taken the point; he did not want Whitlam to get a boost in the Australian electorate as a result of no invitation'. I am grateful to Jeremy for this reference, which was confirmed by Peacock in an e-mail to the author on 7 November 2014. It should be noted, however, that this author found no documentary evidence at the Nixon Library or in the White House daily diary concerning the Peacock-Nixon meeting.

55
   Alan Fitzgerald, ‘Angling for a welcome to the White House',
Bulletin
, 9 June 1973.

56
   Curran and Ward,
The Unknown Nation
, p. 257.

57
   Telegram 3304, Green to Secretary of State, 16 June 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2105, RG 59, NARA.

58
   
New York Times
, 16 June 1973.

59
   Green, Speech, ‘US Policies in a Changing East Asia', 14 June 1973, Box 4, MGP.

60
   Green, ‘The Economic Interdependency of Australia and the United States', Remarks before the Australian-American Association of Victoria, Melbourne, 18 July 1973, Box 10, MGP.

61
   Marshall Green, Press Conference, Melbourne, 18 July 1973, Box 10, MGP.

62
   Green, ‘Australia and America: An Expanding Relationship', Address before the Australian-American Association, Sydney, 26 June 1973, Box 11, MGP

63
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger to Green, 28 July 1973, in Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

64
   Green, Interview with Charles Stuart Kennedy, 2 March 1995.

65
   Telegram 125285, For Ambassador from Godley, 26 June 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2105, RG 59, NARA.

66
   Action Memorandum, Department of State, Hummel to the Secretary, 21 July 1973, NSC Files, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

Chapter 9: ‘One Hour' in Washington: Defining the New ‘American Connection'

1
    
New York Times
, 29 July 1973.

2
    RN,
Memoirs
, p. 898.

3
    Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, p. 497.

4
    Telcon, Nixon and Kissinger, 14 July 1973, HAK Telcons, Chronological Files, June-July 1973, Box 24, RNL.

5
    Ambrose,
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery
, pp. 187–8.

6
    Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, p. 490.

7
    Nixon, quoted in Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, p. 500; see also RN,
Memoirs
, p. 902.

8
    Age, 28 June 1973.

9
    EGW, ‘International Relations', Address at ALP Conference, 12 July 1973, WI, accessed 10 January 2013.

10
   
Bulletin
, 11 August 1973.

11
   Age, 19 June 1973.

12
   
Courier-Mail
, 25 July 1973.

13
   Memorandum, John A Froebe to Mr Kissinger, 18 June 1973, NSC Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

14
   Memorandum, John A Froebe to Mr Kissinger, 11 July 1973, NSC Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

15
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Ambassador James Plimsoll, 25 July 1973, in
FRUS, 1969–1976
, vol. E-12, Document 35.

16
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Green, 28 July 1973; in Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

17
   Memorandum, Meeting with Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, 30 July 1973, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

18
   Ibid.

19
   Memorandum, Kissinger to Nixon, 29 May 1973, NSC Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, VIP Visits, Box 910, RNL.

20
   Ibid.

21
   Ibid.

22
   Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Green, 28 July 1973; Memorandum, Meeting with Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, 30 July 1973.

23
   EGW, Speech to the Australian Institute of Political Science, 27 January 1973,
Australian Foreign Affairs Record
, 44 (January 1973), pp. 32–4.

24
   Correspondence, Morris James (UK High Commissioner Canberra) to Sir Eric Norris (FCO) 29 June 1973, FCO 24/1604, TNA; Marshall Green, ‘Australia and America: An Expanding Relationship', Speech to the Australian-American Association, Sydney 26 June 1973, FCO 24/1604, TNA.

25
   Memorandum of Conversation, Lee Kuan Yew and Edwin Cronk, 4 May 1973; Telegram 250 from US Embassy Jakarta to State, ‘Possible Indonesian Influence on Whitlam', both in SNF 1970–73, Box 2108, RG 59, NARA.

26
   Memorandum of Conversation, William Rogers and Gough Whitlam, 30 July 1973, SNF 1970–73, Box 2105, RG 59, NARA.

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