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Telecon Mr. Kissinger Ray Price 10/21/70; 8:25 p. m. K: I have just started reading your draft and this is just -- there is one major problem which was highlighted by the Gromyko speech. What we have about the Soviet Union right now is the sort of canned assistant professors of peace groups. I know you got 90% of it from the President. If we say before the UN all the reasons why we must work together with- out even a slight slap of what they have done, we will make ourselves look totally ridiculous. I find it hard to see what Gene McCarthy would have had different than what we have here. I think we should go back to what we had. What you say on page 2 should be made in reference to the Soviet Union, instead of a general attack on all countries. What we have 'on the Middle East is dangerous in the extreme. What does he mean we are working -- does he want an explosion from the Jewish community ten days before the elections and for what. Are we announcing that we are going into discussions again? What is he trying to say? P: That is verbatim from a tape he dictated. K: Let's take out the phrase, "in all available forums. 11 We have to tone down paragraph on page 7. We must not work together that's exactly what has been happening. Somebody who has just kicked us in the teeth and then has just repeated it in a speech to the UN -- it just doesn't sound right. We must "work" leave out "together" P: What he is XX saying is not that we have been -- but that we should. K: I guarantee you this paragraph is going to -- no one listened to me in June. P: It didn't come across to me as soft. It came across to me as a warning to the Soviets. K: I am not going to argue because this is not the way to write a speech. But I tell you that anything under these conditions which gives us a condominium impression is going to be serious. I don't mind saying we must strive, we must work, but together just has to go. I don't like the whole paragraph because it doesn't say anything. It is canned -- it doesn't mean anything. What does he have in mind? The Soviets kicked us in the teeth by violating the agreement and they have refused to rectify it. Are we going to say let by-gones be by-gones. What do you suppose it means?