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OCR Page 1 of 83TelCon: 5/6/72-10:27
Mr. Kissinger/
The President
K:
Mr. President
P:
Hi, how did you get along with Laird?
K:
Very well on the operation. On the command changes he raised a lot
of technical problems.
P:
Yes,
K:
And I think we ought to let him have his say. He is going to make a
recommendation to you today. It will be orderly and
P:
But it safes his face(?) He brings his man back to be Chief of Staff.
K:
Well his major concern Mr. President is - if you get a supreme
commander - it is mostly technical communications etc.
P:
Yes so that he gets the word - the messages. I know.
K:
Right. Well not so much that he gets the messages-it is how the chain
of command operates. They have got the communications running one
way now and he doesn't want to get so much dislocation while this operation
is going on. It is a reasonable point which at least we ought to look at.
P:
Alright. But I have got to have the changes Henry. Now God Damn it
I am just not going to screw(?) around anymore out here. I am going
to put everything in the pot. And then have the people around the
bureaucrats tie my hands. Now that is an order.
K:
No, no that is not the case. That is a separate issue from whether
you actually create a different command.
P:
OK. I don't care about the titles, Henry. I just have got to get it worked
out so that - if I breathe I want them to breathe. And it has just got to
kwxxxxrx be done. I want a more imaginative commander.
K:
Right.
P:
OK. How did he take the other thing.
his mouth shut.
K:
He will keep his mouth shut.
in helping to work
P:
Did he say he would join you
these
on Rogers.
NX
You
didn't
raise it, hun.