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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2013/05/09 NLN-TELCONS-3-7-26-4
Telcon
The President
1/14/70; 5:40
K: I just want to run thru some information items to you. Walters saw
Xuan Thuy today in Paris and gave him a message. They were the friendliest
they have ever been. Walters said I wouldn't be available before Feb 8
and they said why SO late, why not faster. The reason we said Feb 8 was
so we could do it while Bill was out of the country.
Pres: I still think it is a good idea.
K: I just made Walters read something to them. It was to be a framework
beyond what was said at the Majestic -- if you are willing to talk in the
same spirit we suggest you propose a time and place. We suggested Feb
8
and we did not leave a piece of paper with them.
P: But I think the upshot of it is that they want a meeting.
K: That was Walters' impression. They said they would let us know.
Whatever they do we will be in good shape. We offered them twice a meeting
and whatever they do we are in good shape. If we do go to a meeting
they will have to admit they are willing to talk beyond the framework of the
Majestic.
P: I suppose they will want to take the line they will say what have you got
to say. I was reading a copule of nights ago the whole record of Churchill's
account on Teheran, Malta and his negotiations with Harriman and what
happened in terms of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, etc. And really
it is a shameful record. It is an outrage. I thought Eisenhower was taking
the orders from the top but the whole emphasis was on getting along with the
Russians whereas Churchill was concerned with re-drawing the map of
Europe.
K: He was thinking of what would happen after the war. P: Right. And the
whole thing was the absolute hardness of Stalin during the whole thing.
The Russiand did not give anything on anything.
K: The Russians got us SO focused on victory they never talked about peace.
P: You know that in the days of McCarthy and Jenner they really overstated
it but basically they happened to be right. We did screw up the peace.
NSS, OSD, State Dept.
reviews completed
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
DECLASSIFIED
Declassific oFExetutive1Orde1526 and hastbean/determined to bedeclassified.
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