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Mr. Kissinger/General Haig
November 10, 1970
K:
Now do you think these great brains we've got could possibly get these
4 sentences of a public statement finished?
H:
Yes.
K:
After 3 hours of work?
H:
Well, this is this goddamm speech writer exercise we go through, they
all think they are going to make the history books by what they write.
K:
Yes, but the point that I'm making is I don't care about the feelings
of other elements of the bureaucracy, I care about results.
H:
Well, of course, but you
K:
What would it do if we had a decent statement, nothing. They would
scream and yell.
H:
Yeah.
K:
Has this gone back to the speech writer now?
H:
No, absolutely not, absolutely not, he's had his crack.
K:
Hell, I can do it in 5 minutes if you would just send somebody out to
the house with the stupid thing, I just can't do it in my head without
having the text in front of me. Well, all right now, I'm going to call
the President and just confirm it again and then please let's have the
goddamm statement ready and then let Ziegler be ready to go and say
we are going SO that we don't follow every African state in our action.
H:
Well no, that's the important thing
K:
I don't care about the public statement, no one will count that, but I
want to be among the first to announce that we're going.
H:
Yeah. Well, he's standing by for that decision.
K:
A1, we've got to hook it to something. The best thing would be if we
could send on the hot line a statement to Pompidou, a letter to Pompidou
in which we announce it.
H:
All right, we have a letter, we'll add a
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