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Bob Toth/Mr. Kissinger
September 16, 1972 12:55 p.m.
BT:
Hi, did you get the pictures?
HK:
Hello Bob, yes. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this
--I am writing a Bill Donovan. His blowups are really touching.
BT:
Well that's good. I was just telling your secretary the difficult
time I had dropping them off (laughing). Nobody wanted to accept
them!.
HK:
Well, I am really grateful.
BT:
Okay, well you write to him SO--
HK:
I will write to him, but tell him in the meantime because by the
time this gets typed and gets through my pedantic machinery~-
BT:
(laughing) all right. Dr. Kissinger, can you give me any guidance
beyond what you said at the press conference?
HK:
On what area?
BT:
I am particularly interested in whether or not you had come back
with any greater feeling of optimism than you did when you left
as far as prospects or a settlement this year is concerned.
HK:
In Vietnam?
BT
Yeh.
HK:
I just don't want to comment about it. I really can't. I just
don't want to get into a position of breaking my word.
BT:
Hm huh. But can I take it from that though that there is no reason
for dimunition of your feelings.
HK:
Well, what do you feel my feelings were?
BT:
Ah, it seems to me that when we spoke the last time you thought
there was a possibility of a settlement before the election or
a probability of a settlment before the end of the year.
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