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on the morning of December the 30th, 1972.

It is 10.30, and by this time, Warren will be making the announcement in regards to the suspension of all the 20th parallel and resumption of talks on the 8th, between just early October, period paragraph 18.

I have certainly been through one of the toughest periods of the four years in the period close to me.

And the closer or I believe it was Scullin made various observations that the decision with regard to resuming bombing, normally the one that I made on September the 18th, was going to be far more difficult than the decision to, on May 8th,

On May 8th, there was a massive invasion, and the public generally supported the president in taking action to stop the invasion of the program.

In this case, there was no incident of this sort which would justify military inaction in the public mind.

After all, the talks were simply going along.

They got winning tests, as has happened before,

People do not expect you to engage in massive military activities because there is a law for suspension and or an impasse in cops, very apparently.

This is the point that we have been unable to get through Henry's head.

And we were so prepared with our animals this morning, and I called him in the morning, that we're not going to do this.

We're not going to do this.

What would I explain?

After all, perhaps our state could be made one less of a sigilary of the Black Scully, and others have turned on the needle enough so that they can follow up, which is a great weakness of a whole temperature operation.

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I did not represent the policy at all.

We had a policy that represented a continuation of the policy of the river at May 8th, which I had interrupted very slowly because the enemy was the bush.

And I, as long as the bush has seen any chance of success, we have to continue to do that.

We tried to play a little team, we got away with it for a while, but what really sent it in that respect was that it didn't work.

at least in the public mind, although it did do a lot of good in retrospect for the department.

Here, the real question, I thought it would be nice if the day would be interpreted in the public mind.

Of course, it will not be so interpreted by our opponents in the media and in the Congress as having been a result of a policy that was

And I have gone over this with Colson and me in terms of stuff.

Both of their reactions were as well, next to the stuff again.

They both recognized that the media, much of the media will try to say, the fight was not necessary, or will try to say, might try to say that we were forced back to the table because of the world out in the eye and all that sort of thing.

On the other hand,

is scholars being able to call some person who shares such a view.

That is an incredible position.

predictably, he was very pleased with the city, the right to city, the federal, and seemed to be able to turn around in terms of the public reaction.

Interestingly enough, when Kennedy came on, he pointed out that Russia far wanted to continue their bombing for a while longer, that they were concerned that

It would look like we're concerned that we might be listening to the body because of the protest, rather than because they were coming down to the table.

Of course, they were reassured when they were appointed.

As Kennedy recognized, the district also recognized that Stuart's small base would not be worth quite in terms of the cost that it would entail as far as additional professional

All right.

uh, looking at all the, uh, protests, etc.

It's really, uh, I suppose rather, uh, to have had this happen.

It hasn't happened.

Very good.

It exposed people like Sexton, who jumped in immediately for the kill.

Uh, it exposed, uh, some of the other part of the Democrats,

The real problem we have now is how we can maintain the confidence of those negotiations that at least have a reasonable chance to proceed.

Uh, this witness has been insulting the Congress in the course of the war on race.

I mean, it takes quite a bit of good grace.

And I find out that the Congress has been insulting the Congress.

I remember when I called home, I saw some speech during this, uh, past my day of prison.

I received a broadcast from the Congress.

And on top of all these, I vote determination.

Of course, I was aware of the protest.

I've been through this before, and I was going to do it right.

I suppose the other point that's been made is that you have some belief in the needs of the president's company.

You hear the president go on and reassure them as to why we are doing the bombing so that they can know

This does show the need for more press appearances on television.

I think that's not my perspective.

Of course, I could care less, as I told

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