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    "ocrText": "Bill Donaldson/Secy Kissinger\n2\nD:\nOkay. It's not just the embargo but just the idea that, you know, finally\nnow with all the pressure they put on, even the United States is now\ntrying to make a deal with them. It just makes them feel that the whole\nstrategy is brighter than maybe\nI'm not questioning that we\nshouldn't have a contingency plan.\nK:\nA contingency plan won't do us any good if we haven't opened the\ndiscussion.\nD:\nRight. Okay. I guess I would want to haul out the contingency plan\nthe minute we see that these other guys don't go along with us; in case\nthey don't go along.\nK:\nYeah, but why is that better to open the discussion and then let it drag\nuntil the other guys don't go along with us?\nD:\nI just think he might interpret it as a sign of weakness. Your judgment\nK:\nWell, I'd like to see By the time the others have sewed up large\nchunks of this thing, it doesn't do us much good to open the discussion.\nD:\nSo far, you know, those deals are pretty small. I mean, 200 thousand\nbarrels a day to the French is nothing. And the British haven't even\nK:\nWell, we don't have to go that way. I think it will be a better pressure\nthough if we have an option to go this way.\nD:\nRight.\nK:\nI have never seen the advantage in not getting yourself an option.\nD:\nRight.\nK:\nSecondly, I had a press conference this morning and I announced that the\nPresident was going to make an initiative next week.\nD:\nOh, you did.\nK:\nYeah.\nD:\nGood. Well, that brings me to the second reason why I was going to call\nyou. And, that is, first of all, I talked to both the Germans and the\nBritish Ambassadors. The British, you know, were very forthcoming\nand he said he would go back to them and he was all very friendly. The\nGerman guy was a little more guarded in the sense he felt they were in a\nsort of a special position now because they now share the EC thing.\nK:\nOh, bull!"
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