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Frank Mankiewicz/Mr. Kissinger
4:20 p.m., September 28, 1972
K:
Hello.
M:
Henry.
K:
Frank, only 6 more weeks of this nightmare and we can talk to each
other again.
M:
That's right, that's right. I have two things. First of all, we're going
to release the story tomorrow that you are the only person that we are
going to hold over in the Administration. We do want to have you.
K:
(laughter)
M:
We like your work. I have a very serious problem. I'm aware of course
of all the fund-raising that you've been doing.
K:
I have done none.
M:
And a fellow called us from Fort Worth -- I haven't quite checked him
out yet but he says that he will contribute $28 million to the campaign
provided that we will pay for three half-hours on each of the networks
in Texas. I'm deadly serious -- this is his proposal. During which time
he will explain on this half-hour exactly how it was that you kidnapped
him and held him prisoner for 60 days.
K:
Jesus Christ!
M:
What I want you to do is to make a clean breast of it and we can make
$28 million and that will mean that your campaign will have $50 million
and ours will then have $29 million.
K:
I thought that we had kept that part of it secret.
M:
Well, it's out. Now, was it 60 days or was it a shorter period? Where
did you hold him prisoner?
K:
In my backyard.
M:
In your back yard. You just let him graze. I see, that's why your
grass is SO poor there.
K:
That's right.
M:
But I thought you would like to know that -- it's a kind of a twist on the
other story --
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