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The President/Mr. Kissinger
K:
No, no; the mistakes of that were made in the Kennedy Administration.
P:
It's done now.
K:
That's where it could have been stopped easily.
P:
You got a little cold?
K:
No, maybe I've been talking a lot on the telephone.
P:
You have, huh? (laughter)
K:
Yeah.
P:
Well, on this thing my view is to play this -- I'll get them in and
have a little meeting. That's a pretty good idea. But this idea of
it's the same old story, Henry, that we have such things as troop
withdrawals, Cambodia, Laos or virtually everything we have done,
everybody comes in and raises questions.
K:
And it's this --
P:
Well, goddammit; if they've got a better answer, fine but I don't
see -- They raise the questions and that makes a good historical
record, doesn't it?
K:
That's right and it's this phony wisdom; we ought to consider things
carefully. Of course, we ought to consider things carefully.
P:
That's right, that's right.
K:
What good does our action do? On that basis, we just have to roll
over every time a superior country moves. What is the long-term
effect? Of course, we have to consider the long-term effect.
P:
Yeah.
K:
The proper
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