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TELCON Secretary Shultz/Kissinger 10:35 a. m. - 9/22/72 K: Hello. S: Hello. K: George. S: Hi Henry, how are you? K: OK. S: Say I have those two appointments set up this afternoon with the French and British Ambassadors and we are sending word to Smith by our guy there that I'm anxious to see him as soon as possible. K: Can you avoid having them run into each other? S: Yeh, they are separated by about an hour and a half so I'm sure that they won't run into each other. K: Good. Now I guess you know that Pompidou supported us on Vietnam yesterday which was one of the quid pro quos and which will be a terrible shock to the Vietnamese so can we lean over backwards. S: I'll lay it on thick that we listened to them carefully in the Azores and that you in your discussions with them. K: Well now one thing that they brought me today - I had breakfast with Schumann and he said what they want is a sort of a truce until after our election. But as I understand it after your speech you don't intend to do much until after the election. S: I don't inten d to engage - I think what will happen is that this committee of 20 that is being formed to be the forum for these discussions will get itself formed somehow next week with a chairman and so on and then it will have to organize itself SO to speak. It will take a month or so for that to happen. there is a meeting that is substantive in nature. K: Well, if you just stress to them that we are approaching it in the spirit of cooperation with them rather than of .