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Telecon
Mr. Kissinger
Secretary Laird
9/14/71; 6:55 p. m.
K: Mel, I was just talking to the President. We have been reading the
STAR story. We don't know what to do about the Pentagon.
L: That's just a cheap story !
K: Pentagon sources.
L: Did you read my press conference about a week ago?
K: No. Couldn't everybody just shut up
L: You can't get the reporters to shut up.
K: I don't mean the reporters. Who the hell is Abrams to say there will
be no residual forces!?
L: McGovern came out of the meeting with Abrams and said Vietnamization
program eventually would provide for the total withdrawal
K: Now that we are in the end phase of it
L: I understand that completely, Henry. But no one is talking in the
Pentagon. If you are going to take McGovern's
K: I don't give a damn about McGovern!
L: They are absoultely cheap stories. What they are doing is quoting
military sources but I guarantee there is no military -- there might be
some Army officers some are getting to the point where they think
Vietnam has hurt the Army.
There will be no awards for getting out 2 months earlier
K: / if we get out in a way that the Communist are in power in Saigon, All
this agony will have been in vain.
L: Maybe I had better get down to the President tonight
K: No, he has a dinner with his wife -- don't come down.
L:
because the situation is such there is no one talking in the Pentagon.
K: If you can just do the maximum to scare your people.
L: I have done that but you are going to get these cheap stories.
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