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Sen. Edward Kennedy/Kissinger
3/8/74 - 2:45 p. m.
K:
Hello.
TK:
Oh, Henry
K:
How are you?
TK:
Fine, very well. I had just a couple of things. I had talked to
the Soviet Ambassador about going to the Soviet Union in April.
K:
Yes, they told me about it.
TK:
And I just thought I'd mention it to you -- they extended an invi-
tation to me and I decided.
K:
I think it's a good idea.
TK:
Fine. I just wanted to let you know I'd given it some thought and
they extended an official invitation a week ago and I just sort of
really decided yesterday. I had a fellow down talking to me, but
I wanted to let you know.
K:
Between you and, me, they asked me whether it would create any
bad feelings here and I told them absolutely not.
TK:
Right. Fine. Well, that's fine. One other thing, Henry, I have
been appointed on the American delegation to attend this conference
in Geneva. It's sponsored by the Swiss government and the ICRC
International Committee of the Red Cross to update the Geneva
Conventions, and this has been in the area that I have been
interested in, the whole impact of warfare.
K:
That Conference is going on now, isn't it?
TK:
That's going on now. Now I was supposed to go over
Mansfield
appointed me as the Senate delegate and I was going over a week
ago last Thursday and make the speech over there on Friday.
And then my mother had gotten sick and, as a matter of fact they
had some various procedural problems, in any event, and - about
the seating of various delegations, and then they ran into similar
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