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Secretary Rogers
9/21/70 3:50 p.m.
R: I'm calling about a totally different subject.
K: Thank God.
R: Yes, your backgrounder. Gerry Smith is concerned about
something on page 13, regarding the SALT talks. You said "Proposals
K: I was afraid you were going to praise me for a minute.
R: Said, "Proposals have been carefully prepared on our side, and
the Soviet proposals have provided a basis for negotiation. 11 Gerry
Smith doesn't think they do.
K: That's an unhappy formulation.
R: What he asked about was whether this had been released.
K: Yes it has. The intention was to say were not unreasonable." It
was badly put.
R: He is afraid it might be seen as a signal to the Russians that we
want to negotiate on their proposals.
K: It hasn't been picked up in the press like that.
R: What we should do, he thinks, is to have somebody say just the
opposite, not to refer specifically to it, but have somebody ask us and
say no.
K: That's okay as long as it doesn't look like a frontal attack on me.
That's not a good formulation, I agree.
R: Okay.
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