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The President/Mr. Kissinger
P:
Well, what about the British position and how they're playing it?
K:
Well, they abstained.
P:
They abstained on this?
K:
Yeah.
P:
That sort of figures doesn't it?
K:
Yeah.
P:
French?
K:
They abstained.
P:
Humph. The French abstained too, huh?
K:
Yeah.
P:
What do you think the real game there on the British and the French
afraid to make Russia mad, isn't that it?
K:
That's right; they are trying to position themselves between us and
the Russians.
P:
Um-humm.
No,
K:
/I
am beginning to think one of the worst mistakes we made was to
push Britain onto the Common Market.
P:
Yeah, yeah.
K:
I mean that wasn't our Administration, we --
P:
I know that. That decision was made long before we got here but we
continued to push it, that's for sure.
K:
Well, we couldn't have stopped it by then.
P:
No.
K:
We acquiesced in it.
Heath -- And, of course, and
P:
Yeah, sure. That was Heath's position long before
became
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