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TELCON
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Mr. Kissinger/Secretary Connally
December 5, 1971 (??)
K:
And I think we have to show that it's too risky to kick us in the teeth.
C:
You know I'll agree with that position.
K:
Well, you've been SO soft in the last few weeks --
C:
(laughter)
K:
-- that I've just wanted to check around.
of course
C:
Well, you know it's a very practical matter. It seems to me that
/
India as an ally is an enormous liability under any circumstances
political and economic and military liability.
K:
Yeah, yeah.
C:
By what ever means we can divorce ourselves from them, the better
off we are, regardless of where they go.
K:
That's right. Well, then where the hell are they going go. They
have their reasons to be independent. There is as good a chance
that they will try to win their way back into our favor as there is
C:
I agree with that.
K:
Because if we -- now, no matter what we do, we can't do as much for
them as the Soviets have already done on the thing that interests them
which is to rape Pakistan.
C:
Yep, yep.
K:
So that is the way the issue may come up, it may not come up that
way but that's at any rate where the President is leaning at this
moment. And he wanted me just to explain why we have done the
things we have.
C:
All right.
K:
And, of course, you will hear the rest of it there.
C:
Good.
K:
But let 's try to get together for lunch. I'd like to hear what happened
in Europe.
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