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Mr. Kissinger
The President
12/8/71; 8:05 p.m.
P: Did Ken do anything for you?
K: Yes. He's good.
P: I told him you had been working hard and to give you a good working
over. He thinks he should go to China.
K: There is something to be said for it, Mr. President.
P: I am just going to take a look at the list and strike an aide or military
guy and have him go. Maybe every day we will have to be worked over.
K: Right.
P: It will be good for you and for me.
K: He is very relaxing.
P: Also he could do the press.
K: He travelled with the Rockefeller campaign and he clowns around with
the press and relaxes them.
P: What I was thinking about with regard to the options --maybe we have
to put it to the Russians that we feel under the circumstances we have to
cancel the summit.
K: No, I think it is too drastic at this early stage.
P: I want you to know we are prepared
Do you have a minute now?
K: Yes.
P: The things that we have to consider now are the cost of letting this go
down the drain and then doing the other things. On the other hand, we have
to figure we may not be around after the election. On the other hand being
around after the election may not matter if everything is down the drain.
K: If we play it out toughly we can get some compensation. Then you can
go to Moscow and keep your head up. After all the anguish we have gone
to setting it up, nobody wants to jeopardize it.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12958, as amended, Sect 3.5
NLN 05-33/11 ph ltr 3 July 2008
By CIM
NARA, Date 2 Apr 2009
Cp. 133]
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