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    "ocrText": "XXXX President/Mr. Kissinger\nApril 18, 1971\njlj/tape\n10:45 AM\nK: Mr. President, Ziegler is out of town and I have talked to Jerry Warren.\nHe hasn't had a single press question yet. And the line I have tentatively\nestablished subject to your approval is that he was talking about South\nVietnamese capabilities, not any particular plans. And he was just talking\nabout abstract capabilities.\nP: Good. That's very good. Hypoth.\nK: Hypothetical things.\nP: And not about American activities.\nK: That's right. And if that is agreeable, that's what we are going to stick\nwith.\nP: Fine. Laird will probably be asked.\nK: No, I got word to Defense already too.\nP: How will Laird handle it then?\nK: Laird would say he was - essentially the same thing. They haven't had\nmany queries either.\nP: Well what this is Henry. It's the devilish press again just trying to take\none little old word and hypo this thing. I think Henry it is pretty much a\ndefensive thing on their part. They must really be up the walls. Don't you\nthink so?\nK: Oh, Mr. President. Here they have been going saying everything, that\nwe are bringing the Chinese in, that Laos would lead to a worsening of the\nsituation, now they see that they got beaten back from Fire Base 6, military\nactivity is dropping again just as we said it would and the China thing breaks.\nThey are just out of their minds.\nP: Don't you sense that in talking to them?\nK: Qtxxix Oh yeh, they are just completely confused.\nP: Now the line they will pxxxadxyxx probably take it seems to me to come back\nat it in terms of saying this is really just the Chinese people - I mean that we'll\nget along with the American people and that sort of thing but I don't think the\nChicoms - the government - will play it that way. I think the Chicom government\nknows that the American people can't do one damn thing for them.\nK: They are playing for the big stakes, Mr. President.\nP: You think so."
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