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Mr. Kissinger/Bill Hyland
November 10, 1970
K:
How about God is love and Gentlemen, please wash your hands before
leaving this room?
H:
I thought you wanted this Safrie stuff.
K:
No, go ahead.
H;
His was the quality of vision that could see the grand sweep of history
at a time when others focused only on the events of the moment. His was
the quality afforded to translate that vision into reality. His passing
is not only a loss for
K:
Oh, what?
H:
His passing is not only a loss for the French nation but for all nations.
K:
That all?
H:
No, one more sentence.
K:
That is not what I wanted, please type the goddamm thing up, send it
out to my house and I'm going to write it, there was three sentences I
gave you all. I'm sorry to be SO impatient but if we knew at 4:15 and
we come up with some sophomoric stuff it's really awful. I'm not
blaming you Bill, it's just unbelievable that with a speech writer staff
we do nothing better than that. Can't we say something to the effect, as
what I said to you before, at this moment, when what this period needs
above, what we need above is something to lift us above ourselves, what
he stood for was not something that was an inspiration to France alone
and his passing therefore is not only a void for his country because in
a deep sense he belonged to all of us, something like that, something that
shows just an ounce of thought, that couldn't have been written by a
sophomore doing a term paper. I mean this could be written by a senior
doing a term paper.
H:
What he stood for was not an inspiration for France alone. At this
moment what we need is something
K:
No, no, nevermind, I'll write it, I'll call you, read the other sentence.
H:
That's it.
K:
Read the other paragraph, I mean read the other letter.
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