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Memorandum to the Secretary of State on Export Sales of Surplus Agricultural Commodities to the United Arab Republic

December 29, 1965

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Determination that Sale of Surplus Agricultural Commodities to the United Arab Republic is Essential to the National Interest

In accordance with your recommendation of 17 November, I hereby determine pursuant to Section 107 of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, that it is essential to the national interest of the United States to finance export sales of surplus agricultural commodities to the United Arab Republic under title I of that Act.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Note: The memorandum was read by Joseph Laitin, an assistant press secretary, at his news conference at 4:20 p.m. on Wednesday, December 29, 1965, at Austin, Tex. It was not made public in the form of a White House press release.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Memorandum to the Secretary of State on Export Sales of Surplus Agricultural Commodities to the United Arab Republic Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/238700

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