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OCR Page 1 of 58Telecon
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?