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Secy Schlesinger/HAK
July 25, 1973; 4:32 p.m.
K:
Hello.
S:
Henry, how are you?
K:
Oh, Jim, I'm sorry. The President wanted me to raise one thing
with you, and then I wondered whether there is any time tomorrow
that would get you near the White House so that I could discuss
something that would only take three minutes personally with you.
S:
Oh, can we do that over the secure line.
K:
Well, let me call you back on the secure line.
S:
Oh, there's a Cabinet meeting I see at 10 o'clock. I can probably
drop in.
K:
Well, why don't you drop in before that.
S:
OK, very good.
K:
The other thing the President felt we ought to do - we may have done
it and it just doesn't get reported - is to make a more effective
defense of these Cambodian operations.
S:
A more what?
K:
Aggressive
S:
Defense.
K:
Justification of them. Because what was after all the situation?
S:
Well, I just went over that this morning. They don't report that.
K:
Do you make clear that we came in at the time that they launched
an offensive - 250 casualties a week. We didn't want to go back
to the bombing of the North, but we could not ignore the sanctuaries.
So far as we knew they were entirely North Vietnamese, There
were no villages there. That's all baloney.
S:
No, those are good points. I didn't cover them. I covered the
general situation that we had 550, 000 troops in country and that
they were under attack from sanctuaries. I didn' It go into the
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