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Mr. Kissinger - William Buckley
June 29, 1973
9:10 a. m
K: Hello.
B: Hi, Doc.
K: Hi, Bill.
B: How are you my friend?
K: OK, Bill.
B: I'm imagine you're suffering a little bit. I'm sorry for you.
K: Well, it's not one of the more glorious moments in American history.
B: No, no, it sure isn't. From a hundred points of view.
K: But, I think the reaction of the opponents is even more revolting than
the tawdry behavior of my ex-colleagues.
B: Yeah, I wish it were easier for you to externalize that point.
K: You know, to dismantle the country
because of what was a collection
of petty crimes, unworthy, and everything else, but still this is a dramatic
dismantling of our foreign policy, of our Indochina policy
they know damn
well we are in the process of negotiating the end of Cambodia.
B: That to me is truly shameful. And the remarkable thing is the total
collaspe of the Senate. It is absolutely corrupt. And
K: And if this thing comes apart now we're going to have the Chinese move
far. left to steal the Communist parties. We'll have a belicose Soviet policy
and no public opinion to deal with it.
B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wish certain things which aren't easy to say over
the phone
but I wish the guy in charge had a better means of communicating
XXXXXXXXXX this kind of thing to the Amer. people but unfortunately there is
in our recent history a self-serving communication that make it kind of
difficult for people to feel that this is not an aggression.
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