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Mr. Kissinger/The President
3/20/70; 7:09 p.m.
-5-
P:
We are not going to hit them the way Johnson did. If we provoke
we are going to kick the shit out of them anything
everything short
of nuclear weapons. That's why I approved the B-52 thing so fast. We
are already being blamed for being in Laos, what difference does it make
if we hit them with little planes or big ones. We may as well use the big
ones.
K:
I will give them an ultimatum that if they don't give us something
I will break off. The
P:
The talks are important to them.
K:
Although you deflated the talks to the point that they are not getting
out of them what they used to. It's even off American TV. Habib is never
on TV. Laos is a good diversion for the timebeing.
P:
You mean for the US -- in the sense we are not talking about Vietnam
If we talk about Laos, people will think we are engaging in another war.
This press is unbelievable. I told Ziegler everyone is bad they are all
your enemy. They came up to me after the Gridiron and said something
about new relations. I told them to forget it, it was just for one hour.
You feel you have to get along with them socially -- I can't feel that way.
I just don't want to associate with them.
K:
I see them rarely.
P:
They bore the hell out of you. As a group they are slobs.
I will see Joe Alsop.
K:
Quality of people going into journalism isn't high.
P:
I don't know about their intelligence they write well and quickly --
they just don't have loyalty.
P:
Let's come back onthe Laos thing the diversion.
K:
The Muskie speech?
P:
Who picked it up.
K:
No one.
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