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Rick Smith (NYT)/Mr. Kissinger
7:35 p.m., August 18, 1970
K:
What classified document do you want now?
S:
No specific document, just the insights into some. Trying to
find out if the President is becoming engaged (in the Israeli dispute).
K:
The President only gets engaged when something goes wrong.
S:
That is what
.
You are not engaged.
K:
Who says that?
S:
The Israelis.
K:
They talk more to you than to me.
S:
Was there any feeling that the President let them down or did they
.
K:
We are letting State handle the thing now.
S:
It puzzles us at this stage of the game as to what the holdup is.
K:
I don't think I want to get into that.
S:
Not attributable
.
K:
Just say an unidentifiable source says that we are going to expel.
S:
What about Secretary Laird's comments the other day. Deliberate
exercise? The whole Roger's initiative.
K:
We had a pretty commentary session on that day. He was scheduled
for Issues and Answers for a long time.
S:
He could have
.
K:
That would have been the first time in the history of the Secretary of
Defense.
S:
Wondered whether or not you have gotten anything you would consider
satisfactory from the Russians on SALT.
K:
Pretty much on course on that.
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