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Memorandum Approving the Release of Copper From the National Stockpile

November 18, 1965

Memorandum for Honorable Buford Ellington, Director, Office of Emergency Planning

I accept your recommendation and the recommendations of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense and Commerce and the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers regarding the immediate release of 200,000 tons of copper from the national stockpile.

In accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 98(d)), I herewith determine that such release and disposition is required for purposes of the common defense.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Note: On November 18 the White House also made public a memorandum to the President from the Director, Office of Emergency Planning, concurring in the recommendations of the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, and Commerce that 200,000 tons of copper be released immediately from the national stockpile for purposes of the common defense (1 Weekly Comp. Pres. Docs., p. 510).

Lyndon B. Johnson, Memorandum Approving the Release of Copper From the National Stockpile Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/241015

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