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4:17 .m., May 11, 1973
K:
(laughter)
M:
That nothing is ruled out at this point. Henry, if I can just for a minute
here, one brief problem - I don't know if it's possible for you to clarify
it. We apparently have a story coming out of the European end, which I
haven't seen yet, it refers to the timing of the Brezhnev thing. I gather
the point of it -- our story has not actually come in yet -- seems to be
that the Russians want to hold off the timing of the --
K:
Total nonsense, believe me.
Just let me finish
M:
/
Not to hold off the meeting but the report was to halt of the announcement
of the timing of the meeting to avoid any complications that might arise
in between to have the announcement come closer to the actual thing.
K:
Look, this will be proved wrong SO shortly that you really shouldn't go
with it. I mean, go with it but it will make you look silly.
M:
Right. There is no relationship of the
K:
Look, all I wanted to do at the Moscow airport
I was walking along
was to avoid having to say flatly that there would be an announcement and
give me a chance to get back and report to the President.
M:
This is what many of us thought was happening. That you obviously
did not want to be announcing the meeting in Moscow.
K:
No, because it would have to be a joint announcement That is literally
the only thing. And the Moscow correspondents have had nothing to
write. After all, one thing I find interesting is that no one printed what
is much more significant -- the announcement that Moscow in fact
printed of my visit in which they said I saw Brezhnev, the talks were
conducted in a friendly atmosphere and both sides commented about
their construetiveness and comprehensiveness. Now these for
Communists are very unusual words.
M:
Yes.
K:
And for your information, I put into the Communique Draft -- I said
they were conducted in a friendly atmosphere and complete frankness
and Gromyko took out the words "and complete frankness" because
he said that's a code word for disagreement.
M:
(laughter) That's right, it is of course.
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