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President Nixon/Kissinger
11:33 P.M. - July 31, 1973
P:
Hello
K:
Hello Mr. President.
P:
Hi Henry How are you?
K:
OK. I just wanted to tell you that, how moving I thought your toast was
tonight.
P:
Oh, well thank you Henry. I was deliberately in a very subtle way
sticking it to some of yours and mine friends.
K:
I got that point.
P:
But they had to hear it.
K:
It was done in a very moving fashion Mr. President and so I
P:
Well thank you. The main thing is it ought to be said.
K:
I think.
P:
Isn't it about time somebody says you know I looked at old
and Dominic all of them were sniffleing around and asking about
their little projects and what do they want to be remembered for.
They want to be remembered by this, of course they're not in
Watergate, but want to be remembered by some God damn project
they didn't get through. Wheter they won an election, they're
going to be remembered whether the hell they moved the world a
few inches toward more peace. God damn it that's what we are
doing and I think that needled the hell out of the audience. I could
see.
K:
OH, you could have heard a pin drop. It didn't really needle them
but it moved them. There were few to whom the shoe fit.
P:
Do you think it got through to them.?
K:
Oh yes. I found that it was very moving and very beautiful.
P:
Did some of them talk to you about it ? Did they get the point of it?
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