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Laird/Kissinger
6:08 pm
5/6/70
-2-
L: It's tough. There are people who are against the whole war. They are jumping
on this and using it. They are trying to misuse the students.
K: We will be through with these in 3 weeks, won't we?
L: 3-6 weeks. We are limiting them. I don't know where the President got
that mileage.
K: To hell with that . ? ? ? ? ? ?
?
L: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? On the riverine operation we have Americans
in on that. It won't go up for a couple of days.
K: He understands it too. We talked about it this morning.
L: Maybe I am not getting the right dope.
K: He was thinking of the NSDM.
L: I thought he was going to give the riverine thing away.
K: He almost did. How are the operations going?
L: Fine. There will be press people saying thexex things aren't going well but
most people recognize they are going okay. Kalb will say it's living up to Pentagon
expectations. We can't police that. We put out that it's better than our expectations.
So is Wheeler and Abrams.
K: OK.
L: One other thing. We have got to insist on one thing and you have to help. As
we have inserted these people over there they have to have a plan for the use of
these troops. Most of these Khmers have never been in a city and to let them
wander around Penom Penh they have no use for them. They don't have a hell
of a lot to do.
K: We will raise that tomorrow at the meeting.
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