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Robert McNamara/Kissinger
1:15 p.m. - 10/16/72
RM:
Henry, you asked for a progress report.
HK:
Yes.
RM:
It took God seven days to create the world, it's difficult to
recreate North Vietnam in two but I'll have a report for you
tonight. Where do you want it delivered?
HK:
To the situation room.
RM:
Yeah, what time ?
HK:
Oh, I don't much care, 7:00 or 8:00.
RM:
Seven o'clockish.
HK:
Right. In what sort of state will it be ?
RM:
Well it will be typed three, four or five pages, we're typing
here we're going to work on it this afternoon. But the figure
I think will be on the order of $600 million a year average.
HK:
And you get that how ?
RM:
I'm not saying how we get it.
HK:
Is that in addition to bilateral US?
RM:
That's just---I understood you wanted to know how much they
need. That's how much they need. We don't discuss how they
can get it.
RAI
HK:
Right. Well what is your estimate of what you can get?
RM:
From whom ?
HK:
I mean, I asked an estimate from us but do you think one could
get them that much?
RM:
Yeah. That depends on how much
puts up
but I think well it is clearly dependent on the US but I think
the answer is yes, the Nordic countries, multilateral institutions
the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, Japan if the
US puts up a substantial percentage of it you definitely could
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