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The President
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think some of them are trying to serve Hanoi now.
K: I believe they have a vested interest in our losing.
P: Put them out on a limb. You briefing tomorrow?
K: There's a group of Republican leaders Colson set up. I'm going
to brief them and get Moorer over here.
P: You get Moorer over here and pour it to them. Say this is the
most distasteful reporting in history. Don't go out on a limb or it is going
to be sawed off. The same was true of Cambodia. The same is true here.
Say we are not kidding you.
K: Clark MacGregor is trying to get Benson to say publicly what he
said to me today.
P: He was really enthusiastic?
K: Yes, he said he went there very positive about Vietnamization but
it went beyond what he expected. If we put it out what he said to me today
everyone would say it was the White House doing a brainwashing.
P: What time are you seeing them?
K: 11:00. I'm spending two hours every day with these groups to get
the figures. I'm bringing the whole intelligence community in tomorrow
to go over the
I was trying to find out today about the
vulnerability of strategic forces.
P: Has the weather cleared yet?
K: No, but I think in two weeks it's a disgrace
P: There's going to be a new Chief of Staff of the Air Force, I can
tell you that. They have no gues, no imagination, nothing. My suggestion
about the B-26s -- nothing/ !
K: No. They've been doubling the number of gunships. But if it hadn't
been for your pushing they wouldn't have done that.
P: I'm tired of having these
the AP guy
these guys are
nuts to talk to the press like that. Who's in charge of the helicopters out
there -- some left-winger?
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