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(Tape from Home -- San Clemente)
Amb. Dobrynin/Mr. Kissinger
September 2, 1971 -- 6:30 p. .m.
D:
October?
K:
Yes.
D:
I don't think that is a very big thing
K:
Or we could do it the 12th, but for us the 6th or 7th is the best.
D:
The best.
K:
Yes.
D:
Okay, I will check it. But couldn't you say -- I am sure you have the
text, how was it solved with the Chinese ?
K:
The Chinese -- I haven't got the text here.
D:
I haven't either.
K:
But as I remember it, it went like this. It said "Knowing of President
Nixon's interest to visit China (or something like this), Prime Minister Chou En-Lai,
on behalf of the Government of the PRC has extended an invitation to
D:
As a suggestion could we say something along those lines, "Knowing
his interest and SO on? 11
K:
Well, that would make it identical with the Chinese one and that's
what we --
D:
That's right. Then they think along those lines because otherwise it
looks like you have additional changes but just something along those lines "knowing
his interest", not exactly the same phrase but something like this one which is a
rather neutral proposal just to keep both sides on the same balance. I tried to put
it in some form to make it the same balance both ways.
K:
Yeah.
D:
Maybe you know some other.
K:
Well, if we make two sentences out of it. You know, if we say "it has
been agreed upon that such a meeting should now take place", you see. And then
one could say "the Soviet Government extended an invitation for the President to
visit Moscow for this purpose and the President has accepted. 11
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