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I'm thinking, I just can't see myself going on and saying, look
K:
Well, you see, you're compelled to do nothing because all I am
hoping is to complete the text of the agreement.
P:
Right. In that case, it seems to me, my feeling on that contingency
is that if you know he's turned it down, you go right on over there,
you complete the text of the agreement, you initial it, you come
back and then we meet with the leaders and say that you've initialed
it and he's turned it down. Right?
K:
Well, if we know he's turned it down--if we don't know he's turned
it down, that's what we should do. If it's still open, I initial, go
come back, tell it to the leaders and you go on television with
a unanimous leadership behind you.
P:
Right.
K:
If he has, in fact, turned it down then I think I should go to the
--should go over and negotiate another agreement.
P:
Right. Then you come back and I announce that that's the agreement.
K:
That's right.
P:
And that we are going to make it on that basis and that--separate
from him.
K:
That's right.
P:
Well, having thought through the contingency, and he's damned
well got to think through it as well, I agtree with you he can't
allow that to happen, can he?
K:
Whatever he thinks may happen under this agreement is certain
to happen under any of the other courses.
P:
Oh, instantly too. Let's face it, themoment he--his people know
and his army knows and all the rest knows, that the support of
the United States is gone, for Christ sakes, Henry, theyrolown
the tube.
K:
Absolutely.
P:
That's the point. They're down the tube. I mean the psychological
effect of that would be absolutely cataclismic.
K:
That is absolutely correc t.
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