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TELECON John Oakes (NYT publisher) 10/6/71 10:08 a. m. K: I'm calling about your editorial about the trip to Peking. I don't know who wrote it, but do you really believe a trip like this can be laid on within 48 hours of the Secretary of State's speech? O: Tell me what the K: [reads] Let me tell you. This trip has been the date of this trip was laid on two months ago. The date of the announcement was laid on one month ago. Yesterday's announcement, the text and date of it, was laid on for a month. The Secretary of State was fully aware of it when he made his speech. There is not the slightest connection between these two. And it is tremendously harmful. They will think we put this out xx to force them into something we had already agreed upon. And whoever told you there was a connection between these two events is a total liar. O: Between Rogers' statement and the announcement? K: Yes. This was agreed to before these events started in China. O: Yes. Well, I am very distressed by this. K: This will be read in Ottawa and flashed to China. They will conclude that someone gave this to you. They already are puzzled by what Rogers said on Saturday which he claims was misinterpreted by Szulc. O: I was going to ask, how would you explain the Rogers statement. K: I think he was just talking off the cuff, and not thinking through the implications. O: I'm not trying to get out of any responsibility for it, but I don't know the details of how this of course, I see your point. K: The Times is taken very seriously O: I do have to say, the Rogers statement the coincidence of Rogers' statement and the announcement yesterday is really striking. Don' you feel that? The Rogers statement would have logically led anyone to believe K: Except if you think about the technical problem of communicating with the Chinese. We haven't agreed to anything in two days. I can document that the final agreement was made on September 12. O: I don't doubt thatx for a minute what you are saying. I do say that it seemed to me I don't say I have any private information.

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