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Sonnenfeldt/Sec. Kissinger
March 16, 1974
5:05 p m.
K: I have to pick up Nancy. I will call you later. Did you have a good trip?
S: Yes. I have to give you credit. I think you've got them on the run but
I think we've got to hold still now.
K: That's what we are going to do. Look, the President wants to send a
letter to Brezhnev on Monday. Will you draft one ?
S: What does he want to tell them -- I mean what in general.
K: Just a quick review of our relations and that he means to continue on
dtente and the usual crude and that he is sending me with a good you know
but don't limit my freedom of action too much .
S: I would never do that.
K: I'll call you in about an hour.
S: You certainly had him programmed yesterday. He learned his lesson
too well.
K: That's true.
I didn't want him to go this far.
S: At least no one can say
K: What I had him programmed to say was essentially what was in the
letter to Brandt but he went far beyond that.
S: Did you cut out that one sentence for a purpose. Because the thrust
of the letter still is to not scrap the thing at least to postpone it indefinitely --
the EC nine thing.
K: I took that out because it seemed to me to leave open that it might
continue.
S: I thought you took it out because it was to definitive -- shut it off to
definitively. Because I told the British to all intents and purposes we
were holding it in abeyance.
K: That's correct. You took the correct line.
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