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The President/Mr. Kissinger
Brought in 4/4/71 (Tape)
- 2 -
P:
He'll be at the office.
K:
I'll be over there.
P:
He'll either come to your house or there. It doesn't make any difference.
You can work any place.
K:
Right.
P:
Fine; fine. There are a couple of other things I want to ask about.
What is
with regard to that
I notice in the Los Angeles Times that village
they tore up
Foize had a pretty good piece on that, didn't he, about where
did you see it on the atrocity.
K:
I haven't seen it yet, Mr. President.
P:
That was a pretty bad thing, wasn't it?
K:
Yes. They killed about 100 people
You mean the North Vietnamese
attack on that village.
P:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But that was their atrocity.
K:
That was absolutely
And it's typical.
P:
It's typical. Hell, it's
at least somebody -- I don't know whether
the television ever used it -- the difficulty is
I may get this in some place
that the difficulty is that in this war we always see what we have done. We never
see what they have done.
K:
Exactly.
P:
Well, anyway, it's a tough one. Now, the second thing is
K:
And there's one other big difference. For them terror has been
I
don't know whether you would want to say that because this isn't a speech
but
it is a fact that for them, terror has been a regular part of the strategy. In our
case, it has been a abberation when it's happened.
P:
Exactly. Oh, I know. It's so hard to get into that I'm afraid we can't
I'll do that with the editors. You know what you come down to. They would be
giving Calley a medal. We give him a trial.
K:
That's right.
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