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The President/Mr. Kissinger
8:18 p.m., April 27, 1971 -- page 5
K:
And you can hit it in the evening.
P:
They might hit that play if we build it up a bit. They will all think it
is about bugging out but it will be on prisoners.
K:
We are beginning to hold the cards.
P:
That's true but we are going to hold it. The demonstrators may
overplay their hand.
K:
John Chancellor, whom I had lunch with today, thinks the tide has
turned.
P:
What turned it?
K:
He thinks what happened this week has ruined them.
P:
John Chancellor
K:
Absolutely. He doesn't exactly know what you have up your sleeve
but
P:
I am not saying anything about China except that the proposals are at
a very sensitive stage and I don't intend to comment on the future and
next question, gentlemen.
K:
Right.
P:
I don't want to get into the proposal of a two-China policy, UN
membership, Taiwan and so forth. I am going to finesse all questions
by saying that developments here are significant and I don't think the
interests of the nation will be served by commenting on it further.
K:
I think that would be the best position to take, Mr. President.
P:
Haig was pretty pleased.
K:
If anyone had predicted that two months ago, we would have thought it
was inconceivable.
P:
Yeah, yeah. After Laos --
K:
After Cambodia, the same thing --
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