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TELECON (Tape)
The President/Mr. Kissinger
K:
Mr. President.
P:
How are the people reacting in the columns to the report?
K:
I think
I haven't read anything yet, but you saw the Star
gave it a huge play.
P:
No, I didn't see the paper.
K:
Yeah, they had it on the front page and practically a whole
page on the inside.
P:
Good. We gave them, of course, the p. m. stories which
gave them an advantage.
K:
Yeah. I haven't frankly seen whether they made any editorial
comments yet.
P:
They would have had time.
K:
That's right, but it's been treated.
P:
You'll get editorial comments tonight, of course -- and the Post
too.
K:
But it's been treated very respectfully by the journalists I've
talked to. I saw that Scali comment in the news summary that it was
a close decision -- 52-48. I don't know where he got that from. It
wasn't Chancellor; he hasn't said anything yet. It was Scali.
P:
That was curious because he's -- oh, well, it's just something
that he probably picked up. Be that as it may, that's a pretty good
choice.
K:
That's right. Well, that doesn't make you look bad because
P:
I thought Moorer, incidentally, was good today. One thing about
him, Henry, I think he's totally honest.
K:
And I confess, I've been bugging them a little bit, but they've
done all the things that they needed to do now. They are moving up on
914 which is the only route , and they've put in 6,000 more men, and
they are taking out the airborne division which takes these heavy casualties
and doesn't have heavy equipment. So, now every concern that I expressed