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TELCON (Tape)
The President/Mr. Kissinger
December 19, 1970 -- 5:30
K:
Mr. President
P:
Henry, I was going to ask you -- anything new on Warsaw?
K:
It seems to be -- the riots seem to have subsided, the reports we get
is of great tension; some factories still occupied by workers but no
actual riots in the street.
P:
I bet it was a lot rougher on the President's case.
K:
Oh, we have conversations of that little bastard, Babr
P:
Yeah, yeah.
K:
and he says well if this goes on another day or two, that's the
end of Ostpolitik. So strangely enough they see it the same way that
I do. He is a bastard.
see it like we do now.
P:
Thank God the British
didn't
want
to
get
involved.
You know the one
great thing that we have to remember here, you realize if we had
Wilson here, he would be pushing Brandt rather than trying to hold
K:
Oh, yeah. Oh, of course and he would be pushing you to go to -- for
him to go to Moscow.
P:
Yeah, he'd be going. I was thinking one thing we ought to do as soon
as Al gets a day of rest we ought -- I ought to get a .rst-hand report
from him.
K:
Absolutely, he'll be ready Monday for you.
P:
Fine, well we will sit down and just
K:
I had a brief discussion with him today.
P:
How's he feeling?
K:
He's feeling fine. He's quite optimistic. He thinks that we can -- he
says Thieu was really actually very upset by that 40, 000 withdrawal
we made this year in violation of our promise to him which wasn't done
by you.
P:
Yeah.
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