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P:
Things on Berlin are going smoothly?
K:
Yes.
P:
How about getting the meeting, but not the full NSC. Apart from
us, Rogers, Laird, Helms, Sisco -- that is all. If you get in Agnew he
will want to argue about the merits, etc. Haig should be there to take
notes. I don't like to get into this thing that Johnson was in - to have a
lunch. These things are all NSC meetings. Eisenhower used to call
them Executive Sessions. You don't have to have everybody.
K:
The only ones you are scrapping are Agnew and Lincoln.
P:
Should we have Moorer.
K:
No, we don't need him on this. With Sisco's impetuosity the
thing to do is slow the thing down.
P:
Do you think I should inform Rogers to get at it in a subtle way?
K:
There is an advantage to having it Tuesday or Wednesday so that
they can't do anything until we have that meeting. I would recommend
Wednesday in order to keep them from buck-shotting cables all over
the place. It is the one area we haven't played the control game where
we don't move until we know where we are going. If we had gone the
other way a blow-up with the Israelis and then the cease-fire
Sadat was in Moscow March 1 or 2. Dobrynin told me he had a file,
private or otherwise on everything we had given to Cairo. I don't think
he was bluffing.
P:
Bob Finch, who is very close to the Jewish leaders in California
said they were really reassured by the press conference when I said
blankly I wouldn't impose a settlement.
K: I told Tricia on Thursday night that for diplomatic skill that Israeli
statement was a masterful statement.
P:
I have a feeling that the press conference came just about the right
time on all these issues. On Laos it came at the right time because we
had to have a time that would be followed by some news that would not be
too bad. Just sticking it to the press in the way that they couldn't respond.
The press corps needed to have that said to them.
K:
They keep saying you were mad at them. I told them you were not
made at them, you were just stating the facts.
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