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W:
Look, people have told me to withdraw the book from publication.
I can't publish anything these days. You know, this man Nixon
is not a villain, period. I think he's got a great foreign policy,
what the hell.
K:
And even these transgressions are gonna be seen in a, you know,
they are not going to be excused but it takes a much more complex
analogy of what really happened. You know, there's a Walter Middy
quality, because if you really analyze, I'm speaking as a friend.
W:
Of course.
K:
I mean who would burglar a psychiatrist's office. A psychiatric
record is what the defense uses, not the prosecution. I mean
supposing you find that Ellsberg is crazier than loon. What the
hell can you do with it. And when makes this transgression
explicable. From the point of view of the government it was better
to have him sane.
W:
You see, other media, I've got a question of Howard Hunt's books
here. They are crazy. This is a nondiscript little CIA employee
who from his books himself seems unbalanced.
K:
So you know, if you compare the risks that were run--
W:
Would it embarrass you if I tell you how I'm treating Watergate.
in the whole chapter. And they are right,
I can't write about it.
K:
No, no, you've got to do that. It's part of the campaign.
W:
I'm starting it off actually with a preoccupation, almost an obsession
with foreign affairs. Will the systematic leaking, assault, the
protest of the Australian government that the leak, the Pentagon
papers, I'm gonna call it "Obsessed" whether I get sued for libel
or not. To say that a government has to protect itself in some way
but the authority to protect the government, you just can't give it
to two lunatics in the basement.
K:
Yes.
W:
And go on from there.
K:
I think that's right, that is the problem.
W:
What.
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