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    "ocrText": "Gerry Schecter/Mr. Kissinger\n12:25 p.m., May 14, 1972\n- 2 -\nK:\nScott doesn't know a damn thing. What is he saying?\nS:\nWell, not much.\nK:\nHugh Scott?\nS:\nYeah, he defended the Administration very well, I thought.\nYou know, the word is going around that we really let the Chinese and\nthe Russians know what we were going to do.\nT\nK:\notally wrong, believe me. I mean, Gerry, I have never lied\nto you. We gave them advance notification -- that is to say, about\n45 minutes ahead of time. So in this sense, it's technically true that\nwe lef them know.\nS:\nWell, that's different.\nK:\nBut we did not let them know what we were going to do. We\ndid make aur general position very clear to them, but that does not\nmean we let our particular strategy be known to them.\nS:\nGood. Okay. Thanks, Henry.\nK:\nOkay, Gerry.\nS:\nI was till 10:00 last night trying to get this thing straightened\nout and explain the ways of the world to them up there, but I think it\nwill be all right. I mean you have to have a fall-back position. Mine\nwas, God-damn it, let's make sure that we say that the final decision\nwas made on Monday and that Kissinger\nthey had an NSC meeting\nand Kissinger's position is an advisor to the President. We don't\nspeculate on what view he took.\nK:\nThe real story is the President was opposed to it.\nS:\n[Laughter] And you talked him into it. Okay, Henry.\nK:\nThat's what made it SO hard.\nS:\nWe save that for the memoirs, huh?\nK:\nI tell you, if it hadn't been for one of the Cabinet Members who\nbeat the President down, there's no telling what would have happened.\nS:\nOkay, are we going the end of next week.\nK:\nGood, good."
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