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W:
The key cable is one from Henry Cabot Lodge.
K:
Oh no, those cables--I've seen the actual cables.
W:
Yeah. You see, we don't know what the hell is going to happen if this
coup goes ahead, it's unpredictable.
K:
Well noone has denied that we triggered the coup.
W:
But there's nothing that
did, nothing whatsoever, of that kind.
K:
Look, there is no motive, there is no possibility that Kennedy would
order the assassination of
.
Apart from the morality
of it, it is no doubt that we triggered the coup.
W:
The thing is to me kup totally unbelievable. I still think my approach
to the Watergate theft has to be that this comes out of an obsession with
national security and the foreign policy on Nixon's part. He finds him-
self operating in a goldfish bowl. The Bangladesh of course blew sky
high. It would have blown me sky high. I mean he then has to do
something, and then being uninterested in administration, he himself
was, Nixon,
K:
Right.
W:
He turns this thing over down the line to Ehrlichman, Ehrlichman
to Krogh, Krogh to these two nuts.
K:
Right.
W:
That's- - - later on the thing becomes a cancser.
K:
That's right.
W:
As for the cover up, I'm not going to talk about it at all, I can't understand
what happened yet.
K:
Nor can I.
Okay, Teddy. Teddy I think actually if you write a--I
think a lot of people are going to feel very sheepish a year from now.
W:
Well, I'm going to do my best. You simply have got to understand the
pressure on me and my publisher, and my staff.
K:
Look I have no question. There are two newsmen here in town who are
doing a book on me, and their publisher trying to keep my good will
asked them to delete any reference linking me to Nixon.
W:
Oh, for Christ sake.
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