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Mr. Kissinger/The President
3/20/70; 7:09 p.m.
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K:
The weather is awful but they should be able to do it soon. April
should be much better. We should be able to get uninterrupted periods
of two weeks.
P:
Our press on three networks made grave mention of the fact that
casualties were over 100. There is no mention of the fact that they are
1/3 or 70% lower than last year -- 350.
K:
Possibly about 400.
P:
Basically the people in the press are not loyal to this country.
K:
They can't bear the thought that you can come out all right.
P:
We are either going to do it at Paris or we will do it the other way --
but we are going to do it. I have been reading these figures over the last
three months if we killed one-third of what they say, there wouldn't
be anyone left in North Vietnam.
K:
The fact that no one has ever come back from North Vietnam
the impact on South Vietnam must be enormous -- there is a breaking point (?)
I was doing some preparations for my next meeting. They just aren't
talking in these meetings as they were before. They aren't going 'to make
it last for another three years.
P:
You are going to meet them on the 6th.
K:
4th or 5th and then on the 18th.
P:
I would tell them to fish and cut bait.
K:
When you read the transcript, you will see that they have given a
hell of a lot more than we have. We told them we would go out in 12 months.
P:
They have not given us anything.
K;
They don't insist on the 10 point anymore. If they don't say anything
about the military thing next time I will not go back.
P:
That's right, what we have to do is create a provocation to hit them.
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