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    "ocrText": "Secretary Rogers/Mr. Kissinger\n- 2 -\n5:33 p.m., March 5, 1973\nR:\n(cont'd) Oh, my God, they're all over the lot. They're like the\nPhiladelphia Symphony -- somebody's got to harp and somebody's got\nviola and so forth and they just play their own instruments unrelated\nto the problem.\nK:\nYeah. I thought actually considering what we set out to do, we got\neverything we wanted.\nR:\nThat's what I told them. I said we got really everything we wanted and\nif you have any doubts about it, I'll be glad to have you ask me questions.\nK:\nI mean, if one compares what we submitted with what came out, that's the\nbest test.\nR:\nThat's right. They were fine. Mike Mansfield and Hugh Scott both made\ncomplimentary remarks about it and so forth. But what was so discouragin\nis that they keep talking about wanting to know what's going on. They're\nnot smart enough or interested enough to ask any questions.\nK'\nyeah, yeah.\nR:\nThey asked questions about what are we going to do by way of an\nassistance program and I kept repeating what I told them in public a week\nago and they wanted to know what about Greece and, you know, everybody\nhas his own pet project. Symington thinks the world is going to fall apart\neconomically and what are we going to do about the monetary crisis and\nall kinds of silly goddamn things. But it really went very well.\nK:\nBut basically I have the impression that these fellows know that they have\nno fundamental criticism about foreign policy.\nR:\nThat's right.\nK:\nSo they are just nitpicking around on whatever hobby horse they have.\nR:\nAnd they're particularly unhappy now that the only real hobby horse they\nhad left is that we wouldn't come up and testify. Now I'm going up and\ntestifying so often, they don't know what the hell to make of it.\nK:\n(laughter)\nR:\nBut the\nK:\nBut, you know, the amazing thing is Take this Conference. The only\none that the North Vietnamese really wanted to settle with was us."
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