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Wicker/Kissinger
12:42 pm
12/24/70
W: I wondered if you felt free persuing what we said last night derived from your
feeling that in recent weeks there were developments in Paris. xBxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Behavioral developments.
K: I don't want to encourage it. It's a 10% chance.
W: I am not clear on the conclusion.
K: That maybe they are looking the whole thing over again. Their first reaction
to our proposal wasbrutal to make sure we had no j hope. That's normal. Maybe
they won't move until they have bopped (?) us one. ? ? ? ? ? NVN plus find us
on our own
.
W: So reports in the paper
K: Less because substance of it means nothing. The fact that they are making it.
W:. To be dixx dictated (?) by you.
K: It may be.
W:
Could I assume that you mean by that that the whole military situation
on limitations there are possibilities of negotiated way out.
K: Maybe but I am not suggesting we can beat them militarily and don't take their
xxxix political interest into account.
W: What, if any, relationship could there be between this feeling you are felling
here and what the Administration -- Rogers yesterday -- waying about the bombing.
Or is there a relationship?
K: I don't want to speculate on that. They will lock themselves into another road.
If you had seen me for an interview I dxx wouldn't have gone as far as I did yesterday.
We are talking xxxx about gut feeling and we have been wrong before.
W: Now that you have pointed it out andx there seems to be an element of logic.
K: You won't subscribe it to me. Whether you write it or not is your problem.
What I gave you yesterday I did tell the President the same thing. Not based on
intelligence. It's a gut feeling on how their mind may work,
W: No other explanation for semantic changes. Have a nice Christmas.
K: Same to you and a happy New Year.