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Mr. Kissinger/Secretary Laird
9:20 p.m., April 19, 1971
K:
You asked me to call you earlier.
L:
No, I was returning your call. I had a note that you called this
morning. I was at the International Red Cross thing and when I
returned I had a note that you had called.
K:
Be damned, I forgot what I called about.
L:
I am just returning your call, no problems?
K:
It must have been something minor.
L:
That was a lousy article in Time Magazine. Somebody planted that
damned thing.
K:
Who would have an interest in doing that?
L:
That business about how about that "yes, but" but a "yes, sir". I
don't know who could have done that.
K:
Mel, you can be sure of one thing, nobody in this office would do
such a thing.
L:
I know that -- no, no, I know that Henry. I just don't think the damned
thing helps anybody.
K:
Let me have a talk with Haldeman about it and see if we can put a
stop to it.
L:
Somebody has to stop it. I have been trying to support as much as
I possibly can.
K:
Mel, you have been a patriot and a loyal supporter.
L:
I understand that.
K:
That was one by petty people, I know that it is not the President's
view.
L:
People just trying to plant that kind of thing but that's not why I
called, I just returned your call.
K:
Think that was still from Saturday -- I left a messag on Saturday.
L:
If you think about it, give me a call, I am at home.
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