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TELCON - 6 - 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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