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OCR Page 1 of 49TELCON
Nick Thimmesch/Mr. Kissinger
3:30 p.m., December 20, 1972
T:
Hello, Henry, how are you?
K:
Okay.
T:
I thought I would write a column In fact, I've written it but I wanted to
check a couple of things with you. I was a little demused by all the
doomsday that's been in the papers since your briefing on Saturday.
K:
Yeah.
T:
Well, the two areas -- One is that negotiations have broken down and
we're doomed to months of hopeless war and the other is the detente
is jeopardized. From where I sit I don't think either one of those is
true and I would just like to --
K:
agree.
T:
There will be negotiations again.
K:
That's what I had hoped.
T:
Do you have any idea if it's going to be weeks or months
K:
I just don't want to --
T:
Le Duc Tho or what?
K:
I just don't want to estimate that.
T:
Are you still in communication with them?
K:
I don't want to comment on that.
T:
It seems to me that the Soviets and the Chinese have too much
to let
Vietnam stand in the way.
K:
That's right. And I don't think the negotiations have broken down.
T:
Right. Well, I've already written this and -- Well, it hasn't moved yet
but I just wanted to hear you on this little bit.
K:
No, I think you'll be proved right.
T:
Do you think, Henry, that there is more realism now since -- Well,
North Vietnam can now count on what kind of force comes back in return
when they carry on the way they did in the last few weeks in Paris.