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Kissinger/President
6-8-70
10:15 pm
- 4 -
K: They have no sense of history
no sense of real public service. They
play with one idea after another.
P: Drink too much, talk too much, think too little. Gardner is typical of
the decadence.
K: I regret to say he is a very good friend of mine.
P: I know. Read his stuff.
K: He puts conventional wisdom in elegant form. He is always with the
crowd.
P: Armstrong, there is a group that could have the President of the United
States up to talk to them. I will never talk to them.
K: I told Armstrong today where was your council in 1920 (??). I said
only the President can bring peace.
P: There is a dangerous new isolationism. They must realize we are in
very great danger of (return) of isolationism. Fulbright and Mansfield
will be joined by the frustrated American majority. The American people
won't withdraw from Europe and stay in the Middle East.
K: Our reasons for being in the Middle East are moral and human (humanitarian?
P: I said (to Heard) where were you when Czechoslovakia appeaked happened?
K: You don't get student demonstrations against Czechoslovakia.
P: It's unfashionable to picket the left. They don't picket the Russian Embassy
here. In some European countries they did.
K: They used to say in Europe in the 20s, the enemy is always on the right.
P: We have to remain sturdy. I think you will agree on the youth thing. I
will meet with another of Heard's groups .
K: I don't think youth should be told it is most idealistic. I think we should
say something significant and something a little different. Early in the
academic year, pre-empt with a speech.
P: OK
K: Right, Mr. President
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