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Adam Walinsky/Kissinger
5-8-70
8:55 p. m
- 2 -
K: That may be true.
W: Doesn't anybody realize you are destroying the American army too.
K: There are others involved. You are involved in this too, Adam.
W: What?
K: This whole process.
W: I am desperately trying to keep the Constitution from falling.
and the streets (from) running with blood but the White House doesn't
want to help.
K: What can it do?
W: Stop the war. Just say, "We blew it, gang. 11 Henry, I told you
also that the history of this war from the beginning was that things were
done too late to do any good. If the bombing had stopped three years
before it did or if any number of things were done before they were done,
it may have been possible. In another two or three months you will
have to bring the troops home to put them in the city. I know you guys
don't understand this. You time of opportunity would have been December.
You picked the worst single possible time. It could not have been worse.
K: There was no reason to do it in December.
W: You got to forget about what is going on over there. What is relevant
is what is going on here
here!
K: Are you going to be here in the next week or two?
W: I will be there tomorrow.
K: We won't be talking tomorrow (?) )
W: I will come by in the morning.
K: 8:00?
W: Taking a 7:00 plane. Be there as soon as possible.
K: Good.
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