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The President/Secy Kissinger
12:45 p.m., January 3, 1973
K:
Mr. President.
P:
Hi, Henry. Everybody tells me you did a fine job at your press
conference.
K:
Well, I laid into them.
P:
Good.
K:
Actually, they asked our sort of question. What about this story that
you're conducting an independent foreign policy? So this gave me a chance
to say how often we meet, how you give me directions before I go, how
I
am in touch every evening, how I am on top of it in touch with Scowcroft
whom you see regularly and Haig. And I said, but moreover I don't like
the idea of a government of independent fiefdoms wasn't run by feudal
barrons. The President is in charge of foreign policy. That's the way
the constitution provides it; that's the way it is; that's the way it will
always be as long as I'm in the Department and the President is in the
White House.
P:
That's good, Henry.
K:
You know, that was --
P:
Great!
K:
Then they said: How can the President conduct foreign policy when he's
being impeached? I said: Well, you've got one thing wrong. He's
isn't being impeached. And they said: Well, as long as there's a threat
of impeachment. I said: You read the President's annual Foreign Policy
Report. He has designed a strategy; he is pursuing it. He is pursuing
it for the sake of the peace of the world and he is in no way influenced
by any of the domestic considerations which you imply and he will do what
is right and only what is right.
P:
That's very good.
K:
And I also indicated at great length that you were spending a lot of time
on the energy problem and I said you were going to approach various heads
of government next week. We're spelling out these proposals and that
gave me a chance to give them your approach to it., which is more than
we could have done -- We couldn't release the letter SO we would have had
to have had Ziegler just say it.
P:
Sure, much better for you.
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