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The President/Mr. Kissinger
Sunday, July 12, 1970
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Don't you think?
K:
Of course, they close about three weeks early.
P: But you know. There really is a death wish, isn't it.
K:
The American intellectual community has an investment
in defeat.
P:
Why, isn't that awful?
K:
For a number of reasons. First, of all they predicted it.
Second because they are afraid that if this succeeds other things
like it might be tried. Thirdly, because they so distrust this
country that they sort of thrive on the errors (malerrors ?).
P:
Well they only trust what, themselves and their brillance?
Good God, you put them in charge of anything
have you every
seen
Look at this bastard Heard, put him in charge of something
he comes up with nothing. Absolute dribble. dribble. I'll tell you
about the intellectual community. I used to have great respect for
the professors
but I have none now. Because they never come
up with anything. They never have any damn guts. I have a hell of
a lot more respect for George Meaney than I do for the President
of Harvard. (or some school) Don't you.
K:
Oh no comparison. The labor people have had to learn that
words alone do not achieve objectives and they have had a very hard
school. But the
P:
I have a certain intuition you know, my intuitions are seldom
wrong because I have been around a long time but I have an intuition
that the Cambodian thing came out better than we could have dreamed
- look, the Chinese didn't intervene and we didn't put the Russians
and Chinese together. I think you ought to have a backgrounder sometime
and point that out. That these are the things that the intelligencia wrote
- the State Department and others predicted - the Chinese would intervene,
the Chinese and Russians would be pushed together and another thing
that we would have huge casualities, that Cambodia would fall and that
the etc. Every prediction has proved wrong Henry, emeryone. Why don't
you
Have you ever told anybody in those direct terms.
K:
Never in a large meeting but I'll
P:
It
doesn't nxex.x have to be a large meeting. Tell it to somebody
who is really writing it and will get it out. And will say you know those
who commented on Cambodia probably would like to go back and burn
their columns. Use that phrase. They all proved wrong didn't they.
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