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P:
Yeah. Well, it might get us out on a limb, though, if something
should happen. It's too Pollyannaish.
K:
Well, I think on the whole
P:
Let the damn thing go.
K:
The best posture is to say nothing.
P:
Because basically let's face it. They'll give us another pop,
we'll say 'well, that's what we expected.
K:
And we have SO much news coming in the next two weeks,
Mr. President, that -- this mining will be drowned in it.
P:
Haig looks at these reports very carefully. He says these guys
are fighting a lot better.
K:
Much better now.
P:
Do you agree with him on this?
K:
I agree with him, yes.
P:
He says he notes the various places where they've really done
a hell of a ;job. You never know, the main effect of what we've done,
Henry, may have been the psychological.
K:
Not the main result but this was one of the g big results.
P:
On the South Vietnamese. Well, they weren't doing a damn thing
before
let's face it.
K:
Well, they weren't doing as much as they are doing now.
P:
Well, they were sitting in their holes.
K:
Because they were petrified that they were going to be sold
down the drain.
P:
Okay, fine. We'll let XVXXXMX that other thing go. Also, I
don't think you ought to take the time off talking to the press. There
are more important fish to fry. Okay, we'll leave it that way.
K:
Right, Mr. President.
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