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The President/Mr. Kissinger
7:10 p.m., September 9, 1971
P:
I wondered if you were able to get hold of Connally.
K:
Yes, I talked to Connally. He is completely straightened out now
and has agreed. It was Volcker who dropped the ball on this.
P:
But he knows there is running room on this?
K:
This was an attempt to put the reins on State.
P:
The main thing is I didn't want him to think I had signed something
to him. I wasn't trying to restrict him, you see.
K:
I have talked to him and told him that was your main concern. He
said the matter was not of any great importance. I said that wasn't the point,
if you get a directive out of the White House
you have a
chance to go to the President first.
P:
He was glad you called?
K:
Oh, yes, he was very pleased. Mr. President, we got an answer
to
the Brezhnev letter -- the letter you sent to Brezhnev some weeks ago. It
is a very long letter and I won't bother you with it.
P:
They are travelling all over the world now.
K:
They are launching the diplomatic
but SO are we.
event earlier we appreciate what has been done by you, Mr. President, on the
negotiations in Berlin. A good and useful job has been done. That's more than
the New York Times has been able to get itself to say.
P:
What did they say? Whine?
K:
Kleinman had an article that you were not instrumental, that it was
done over your dead body.
P:
What did they say about the Brandt statement?
K:
There hasn't been a peep out of them. The Brandt statement was on
Sunday, this was on Saturday.
P:
Isn't that something. What have been the reactions since the Brandt
statement?
K:
That cooled them. Actually, we have gotten a better ride out of
Berlin than I thought we would.
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