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Mr. McNamara/Secretary Kissinger
Monday, June 3, 1974
4:35 PM
K: I'm meeting with Cooper on Wednesday.
Mc: Good, I'll call him right now.
K: He is worried about having responsibility. That is not the
problem.
Mc: He is going to have more than he can handle.
K: Exactly. That is not the problem. A. I can't do it and
B. and I have to have confidence in the people.
Mc: I couldn't agree with you more.
K: The problem is jurisdiction of assignment.
Mc: I can understand that Henry, and I 'll talk to him about that.
You needn't XXXXIXX worrry about that problem.
K: It is not a problem.
Mc: The problem of getting something done in this Government
is a hell of a complicated problem. Part of it, his real problem,
Henry, is going to be to find an answer to these things. Assuming
that he had a completely free hand and could be a dictator of the
XXXXX world.
K: He can assume that he has a free hand on this economic side.
I just want to have enought in put on the foreign policy side.
hesitancy
Mc: I have no/ in telling him that.
I'll call him right away.
K: Good , many thanks.
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