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P: The US - what it will be like for the next 25 years depends on whether
we have the guts, the stamina, the wisdom to exert leadership, will
determine whether the future of the country
that is really what the
facts are. People may want to put their heads in the sand; they may
want to clean up the ghettos. All right, we will get out of the world.
Who is left? The two activists, Russia and Communist China.
K: If you will look at countries like Austria. When they had great political
power they also did great things domestically. Now they are just shrunk
into weak petty countries.
P: All these people are concerned about peace in the world. We go to
the sidelines and there X are a couple of big boys out there ready to
play. - China and Russia. All we are doing is fighting for the right of
countries to be free.
XX
K: Their conflicts are going to be infinitely more bitter than anything
we participate in.
P: Crawford has a good article in Newsweek. You might take a
look at it. Did you hear about the poll. The percentage of approval
was 67 and disapproval 25.
K: Approval of the speech?
P: X No, approval of the Presidency. It won't be that high by early
November, probably around 60-62. When we were up in Connecticut
we had a hell of a reception. These people were all for us. Something
has caught on.
K: The fact that you have held your course. I found that one point that
went very well over today was that the President had many easy oppor-
tunities to yield to popular pressure but he felt that it was important we
end
the war in Vietnam as a governmental decision and not to yield to the
voices in the street. They applauded that. I think it is the fact that you
have held your course against the most domestic pressures any President
has had to face since the Civil War.
P: I had an easy option to blame it all on Johnson and get the hell out.
Just get out and let the country go to hell. Peace in our time, or peace
for the next election.
K: At this party yesterday Tom Braden jumped all over Joe Kraft for
not giving you full support in his column. Braden and Mankiewicz are
writing a column now supporting you, but it won't appear in the Post.
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