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Don Kendall/Kissinger
12:25 pm
12/31/70
K: I get to wish you Happy New Year twice.
HAK: I'm lucky.
K: How was Disneyland?
HAK: Great.
K: I didn't know you had children.
HAK: A girl 11, and a boy 9. I ususually take them out here. I get them
a few weeks each year. They live with their mother.
K: You did what I did before I found the right one.
HAK: I haven't done the latter.
K: Why should you, you are having too much fun. On the conversation with
the Russians, I think I have covered the M. E. with you. (HAK had this con-
versation at his house SO there is no record of it.)
HAK: The y are willing to make a settlement.
K: He put it in stronger terms than that. They really wanted to get it done.
Too much of a drain on them. Too many problems at home for a drain of
a protracted period of time. With the XXZX '72 election how free would the
President be in negotiating settlement that would be unpopular on both
sides with the Jewish Communicty opposed. I said the Jewish community
didn't put him in office and he would do what he had to. He was surprised
at this statement. I think I totally convinced him hedidn't have to worry on
that. He didn't say much on Europe. His big concern was China -- the long
range problems between Japan and China. If they did get together Japan
could give China what they needed economically and industrially. On S. E. A.
they want all countries strong as possible because it surrounded China with
strong sisters and then they can't cause problems. So they wanted to settle
Vietnam. So I said the President wasn't upset with Reich (?) The pressures
that had been put on. I heard the president say that. He said hedidn't think the
President understands what had been done but you couldn't make Hanoi do what
they didn't want to do. They thought the President's proposal on TV was very
good. They were disappointment at the response. They said NFL did accept
supervised elections. I asked if it were passed on. He said the statement
was made in Paris. I checked that and they tied troop withdrawals into it.
HAK: That's what I thought.
K: I asked if it was all to it. He said yes and they will accept it. I akked
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