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Mr. Kissinger
William Buckley
4/7/71; 9:50 p.m.
K: Bill, how are you? We are again in the middle of a hurricane.
B: What's your feel?
K: We have no choice. We have to go through with it.
B: I had a feeling of expectation which resulted in a tremendous disappoint-
ment.
K: Well, he had never said it. What is there -- there is no gimmick?
B: There should have been something nobody will be sent there again that
doesn't volunteer for service
K: If we could do it, but the numbers are still too high. That is our plan.
This is the first thing we will do when we are at the number that permits it.
B: It is 1$ lawfully hard for the amatuer to understand the mathematics of
that. It ought to be worth somebody's effort to explain why it doesn't work.
I thought it was very moving on tenacity of it. How about that Calley thing?
I analyze it as frustration of people that are not allowed to
K: Frustration of people whose children they are criminal and whose news-
papers tell them leaders are boobs. They just don't what want to hear about
it.
B: I will write about it tonight and say the things you want to hear.
K: Are you coming down?
B: I miss you. I called you last week when you were in San Clemente. When
are you coming back?
K: I am in Washington.
B: I will plan to come down and see you.
K: I'd like to have lunch or dinner with you.
B: I read with revulsion that Village Voice thing.
K: I haven't read it, but the things people have told me about it. It is incredible
to
me - - if the National Review had written this about Arthur Schlesinger the
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