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TELCON
The President
Mr. Kissinger
12 Noon, 12-26-70
K:
Hello Mr. President. I have two matters. One is I have the POW
letter which is pretty full statement. I will keep it for you until
you get back on Monday unless you feel you want to release it
today.
P:
Have you found anyone to send it to?
K:
No, I thought we would send it to all the wives.
P:
Well, we can't publish it until then.
K:
There is an American Convention Society meeting tomorrow and
they are going to come up with a report blasting the herbicide
report in Vietnam. At the same time, we had made a study to
phase out our herbicide operations in Vietnam by May of next
year and we were ready to announce early next week but we could
let it go today and it would not look as though we were listening
to the howls of that society.
P:
Yes. I think you could do that. I think on the POW thing we could
get Colson or somebody working on it who is working with that
organization. If we are going to generate it, we have to have
something done today. Could this be put out as a statement?
Is it in a form that we could do it? I would like this to be out
by today. The people don't give a damn about what we are
doing about herbicides.
K:
It would be an easy matter to change the letter into a statement.
It just needs a different introduction and ending.
P:
Alright, if you would not mind, just make it a statement. What
does it say?
K:
It sums up what you have done since you came into office. We
had Ray Price go over it yesterday.
P:
Good. This would be great to get in Sunday's papers. There is an
organization of POW wives (the main one) that we could send it to
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