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Secretary Rogers
you think the President is doing," why he may lose.
K: But applying your argument of before, why not, you know if he's
willing to run the risk, why shouldn't we?
R: Well, I would be
that's all right
K: As long as we're not
I take it we're both agreed WW
shouldn't twist his arm.
R: Oh sure.
K: I have no objection
R: Let me say this Henry. We're both agreed we shouldn't twist
his arm; we both agree that we can't decide it from here
K: And if he's willing to have an interim government for a month
Bill I wouldn't veto it from here.
R: No, and I wouldn't propose it. What I asked Marshall to do was
merely to ask some questions SO Ellsworth could decide. Now maybe
he
hasn't thought of this, but clearly our people haven't thought of it. When
I asked them they said well, it's going to take too much time. I said why.
Well, the constitution says if you're going to do it it has to be done within
90 days. Well, I said, that's the outer limit; it doesn't mean that you can't
do it quicker. Now whether it's possible or not I don't know; my hunch is
that it's not possible.
K: No, actually, if he holds the election on the third, I think an
interim government for 90 days -- which isn't what you are saying -- that
would probably disintegrate the whole thing.
R: Oh yeah. Well, I'd be very much opposed to that.
K: But you are saying, could we have a government that runs the
election for a month.
R: That's right.
K: Well Bill, if
R: Could accept Ky's proposal
suppose he says, okay, on these
conditions I'm prepared to run. And then you could work it out with Thieu
and say we'll have the election on a scheduled day, but we'll both resign in
the meantime and let the
whatever it is be the interim until the election
is held. It's only a month. Now if it were longer than that, it would be too
destabilizing. You can't
the situation would deteriorate
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