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The President
(Brought in 3/21/71)
page 5
K :
I'll call him this weekend.
P :
All right.
K: I think that we should not
or at least I would
recommend that we not take on the press too much in this inter-
view because
P: I'm not gonng to.
K : While it is true that they have reportedly one-sidedly
that if they had reported none of the successes, I am beginning
to think that some of their battle reports at least were not
they were incomplete but they were not totally wrong.
P: Yeah, yeah. Well, let me but it this way. I think
what we've got to do is to say 'let's keep it all in perspective.
There have been gains and losses and so forth but I think what I
have to get across is that the press has created the
first that we were there for a purpose that we were not for and
second that we did not accomplish our purpose at all and third
that it was an utter disaster. Now those conclusions are wrong.
K :
Those are wrong.
P: Now, in terms of the battle reports and all that sort
of
thing. Sure, some of the battee reports are right, but on
the other hand, they have not reported any successes: they have
reported only the failures. Don't you agree?
K: I would agree. And it was essentially a big net plus.
In terms of the military situation.
D:
So that's the only thing I'm going to do is to get
across the perspective. As far as the uh
your concern
of course is that you don't want to get out 8 £ whack on the
press and then find that the press is right, is that the point?
K : Well that's
I do not exclude that next week as
these withdrawals continue that some of it may turn into what
can be represented as a rout.
P : Yeah. Does Moorer think that too?
K : No, but I think that the military don't understand
this problem very well. He doesn't think it but then their
predictions haven't been all that good.
P :
No.
K : And so I think
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