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P:
Well, in an hour he's going to come in with his usual plaintive answer
and say well that business about being--we are going to die six months
from now, we'll die now. That's just nonsense, and they want to talk
that way, well there's just no deal.
K:
Now, on the concessions, Mr. President, we cannot have - there are
four outstanding issues, we can't have our way on all four of them.
P:
I understand that.
K:
Because, say, for example, they want the PRG mentioned in the document
once, they've agreed to delete it every place except in the preamble.
Now, I have found a formula which I've now checked with the lawyers
which will work which is that everybody except Saigon signs the pre-
amble mentioning the PRG, and Saigon has a different preamble. That
way the North Vietnamese gets three quarters of their way, and then
we make a unilateral statement saying --
P:
We recognize only one government.
K:
Exactly. Then we have shown our good will towards--
P:
Well, don't tell him that tomorrow. Don't tell him that today.
K:
Oh, no, I won't tell
P:
Don't tell him that today. That's something that you wangle out of
them next week and then say we've made a great big deal here.
K:
Exactly. I wanted to tell you that that's the way this one has to go,
we cannot get
P:
I understand that. Anyway that doesn't make a damn bit of difference
whether it's mentioned or not. If we put out a unilateral statement
that we don't recognize them. That's the point they've got to understand.
K:
Now the second thing is I think of all the outstanding issues, the one
we've got to get back is the prisoner one.
P:
Well, that is why you've got to start with that.
K:
But, on the other hand, on that three segment committee, it's just
insane for the South to make--
P:
Well, how about putting in a phrase that this is not a coalition govern-
ment or something of that sort.
K:
Well, they won't agree to that.
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