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Geo. Ball/Kissinger
10:20 a. m.
5/12/71
K: I am claling for a little help. Your Democratic friends are going crazy on
NATO.
B: I will be glad to help.
K: It looks as if they have a majority. We are trying to hold the Senate Republicans
I can't hold it without support on the Democrat side.
B: All right.
K: Some sense of of the gravity of what we are up against, the Republicans are
suggesting a compromise to the Mansfield thing -- "Congress finds the amount of
funds maintaining forces in Europe ? ? ? ? ?. It's therefore the sense
of
the
Congress to withdraw from Europe a substantial portion ? ? ? ? ? o 11 You
can
imggine what the others are like. I am talking out of school. I have the Republican
leadership to reject for a week any compromise of any kind and I will move to get
public pressure against them and I will report in 48 hours.
B: I need from you the XXX nose count of who is the best people to hit.
K: I don't have it here. I will get it for you.
B: I need some kind of current briefing on balance of payments and offset and
maybe the best things is to come down and go to work.
K: What gxxxx C an we get into the media. Can you work on the NY Times?
B: Sure. I will call Oakes this afternoon.
K: And senior people along the same line.
B: At the Times?
K: No. People who help run foreign policy.
B: Cy Vance and Dean Acheson. When I get to NYC I will start.
K: Let me know what you can do. VN is trivia compared to this.
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