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The President/Mr. Kissinger
6:25 p. m. , November 20, 1970
K:
Mr. President, we have confirmation now and the original
report was right. Everyone got away no one was hurt and there
were no casualties.
P:
What is the appraisal?
K:
This was a telephone report. We are getting a flash message --
a full report in. I asked the same question -- whether there was every
anything there or what it was. There wasn't a trap or they wouldn't
have gotten away uninjured.
P:
It was a complete surprise -- but a little late.
K
:
It was bad luck.
P:
It was not bad luck at all. We haven't paid any price at all.
It was just a little exercise, but it proved we could do it. It proves
they could do another one.
K:
That's right.
They could hit something else with that
sort of thing. The other thing is going.
P:
Good. One or two?
K:
It depends on the weather. One, certainly.
P:
Get a message to that Colonel congratulating him.
K:
I have already done that, Mr. President.
P:
Say I am proud of him and his men -- the daring, the execution.
K:
I have done that.
It ran like planned.
P:
Within our inner circle, we are proud of them.
K:
They are really behind you now. They were behind you before
but your attitude on this has been tremendous. It gave them a tremendous
boost.
P:
Poor Johnson and even Kennedy. They stomped around and
didn't do anything.