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HK:
No, not before the end of the year, but within a reasonable time
after the election.
BT:
You said a resonable time--would that be by the end of the year?
HK:
Not necessarily. I just hate to give deadlines.
BT:
Hm huh,hm huh. But there is no reason to change that--your
evaluation of-.
HK:
Look, I mean strictly off-the-record, it's obvious we must
be talking about something.
BT:
Absolutely.
HK:
You know. Amateurs say it is an election stunt and so forth;
what interest do they have to participate in an election stunt?
BT:
Well, I know, this is the problem I have been having, in writing
this stuff, that I am way out of step with everybody else. Because
I do have a feeling--
HK:
I am not saying going to get settled. It's a hell of a problem.
BT:
Hm huh. But there is no reason for them to cooperate in his
reelection.
HK:
That's right and there is no point in our sitting there--you know
we are not playing pinochle.
BT:
Do you feel they finished their reassessment when he came back
and talked to you now?
HK:
Yeh, I think that is a reasonable thing to assume.
BT:
And does one have to assume that they have changed- one assume--
HK:
That is the part I don't want to comment on.
BT:
All right. But one doesn't take as face value their private position
and their public position being the same thing-- mean, that is
the Viet Cong statement and the statement of September 2--does
that represent their private position as well?
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