T elCon 9 16 73 Home 11 50 Mr Kissinger The President • I' I K Hello P Hi Henry K Mr President P Where are you K No I am in Washington I am working this afternoon if I get through P Good Good Well it is the opener It is better than television Nothing new of any importance or is there K Nothing of very great consequence The Chilean thing is getting consolidated and of course the newspapers and bleeding because a pro Communist government has been overthrown P Isn 1t that something K I mean instead of celebrating - in the Eisenhower period we would be heros P Well we didn't - as you know - our hand doesn't show on this one though K We didn 1 t do it I mean we h elped them conditions as great as possible P That is right And that is the way it is going to be played But listen as far as people are concerned let me say they aren't going to buy this crap from the Liberals on this one K Absolutely not P They know it is a pro-Communist government and that is the way it is K Exactly P Well the main thing was Let's forget the pro-Communis t an anti -American government all the wx «tl way In New York I may go to the football game Isn 1t that something _ _ _ _ created the And pro-Castro It was - 2 - I' K Oh wildly P And your expropriating I notice the memorandum you sent up 0£ the confidential conversation _ _ _ _ _ set up a policy £or reimbursement on expropriations and cooperation with the United States for breaking relations with Castro Well what the hell that is a great treat if they thing that No don't let the columns and the bleeding on that K Oh oh it doesn't bother me P Yes you are reporting it because it is just typical of the crap we are up against K And the unbelieveable filthy hypocrisy P We know that K 0£ these people When it is South Africa if we dontt overthrow them there they are raising hell P Yes that is right K But otherwise things are faily quiet The Chinese are making very friendly noises I think they are just waiting for my confi Jrmation to make a proposal P When you say their noises are fri endly what do you mean K Well their newspapers have stopped attacking us They are blasting the Russians like crazy And the y have blasted them so much with Pompidou there that he is embarrassed And Sy Sultzberger ha d been denied a visa so we called them idxix to say that he was n ot like Reston And within 24 hours he got a visa P That is good K Y ou know that they wouldn't do unless they wanted to ingratiate themselves P Right right K And I t old you from the European front that is going along very well but I think they ought to play it cool until next spring XDK I am just reporting it to you