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The President/Mr. Kissinger
Brought in 4/4/71 (Tape)
- 8 -
K:
Yes.
P:
Well, you watch it. I'm deliberately isolating myself from those
day-to-day reports because I must -- if I get involved in that, I will not do
the thing effectively. I think it's very important for me to be absolutely
above it, detached from it, and just plow right ahead.
K:
I think that's right.
P:
These damn reports
That's the purpose of those really. As much
as anything else those guys are trying to get me.
K:
Well, that's the
P:
Wouldn't it really kill them if they knew I don't read them.
K:
It already kills them that you are so serene. Everyone keeps asking me.
P:
Really?
K:
About 80% come in and say, "Now tell me the truth. Is the President
really SO calm? or is he nervous?" I said I've never seen him waver in any
of these periods.
P:
That burns them up, doesn't it?
K:
You know, they are used to Johnson rooting around and beating his
breast.
P:
I saw Kennedy the day after the Bay of Pigs and, boy, I tell you. If ever
I had seen a guy who had lost his cool, that was one.
K:
Oh, God, yes.
P:
And that was, of course, crap. Nothing to that.
K:
Well, that was a one-shot operation.
P:
Well, it was easy to handle, too.
K:
From which it was easy to recover.
P:
Just announce going to the moon. That's all. Well, anyway, if the
serenity bugs them, they'11 get bugged with that because we've just got to plow
right ahead on that score. Well, we've done that all along, of course. I think
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