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The President
6/13/70 11:17 a. m. page 3
P: If they could just get some break over there. Is Heath just
a lousy candidate?
K: He's just a weak campaigner. Bruce says Heath would be a
good Prime Minister but he just comes across as a weak copy of Wilson.
That's why they like Hume SO much--he's such a contrast.
P: He doesn't think it will turn around again?
K: He thinks maybe the newspaper strikes might change things.
But he thinks Britain will have a major economic crisis again this year.
Wages have increased and prices haven't caught up with them. But they
will
P: And then the foreign exchange problem will occur again.
Wilson just let wages go up to win the election. If it could just be close
enough they might still have to have another election.
K: I think Bruce is a good man. He realizes that some of the settle-
ment might have to be made outside-- he's not a prima donna. He suggested
setting up a back channel. I think you would be pleased with him.
P: Did you really lay it on the line to him?
K: I said once you say something you don't want it to come back
to you 50 different ways; you want it drank done. He's a strong and honorable
man.
P: Will he do it?
K: He'll call me on Monday or Tuesday. He wanted to talk to his
wife. But he'll do it.
P: We should announce it in July. But I don't want it to look like
we're doing it out of weakness.
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K: Around the 15th, or we could slip it to the end of July.
P: We should do it from strength. I don't want to appear to be
driven into it.
K: Early in July we ought to go back into the other channel and
answer the note. We would have waited 4 weeks by then.
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