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Do we feel worried about King?

He's a good soldier.

He just wants to do everything, but it's awfully hard to know what to do in that particular place.

But I think if we move at a measured pace, he's waiting for me.

After this meeting, I've got something.

He'll read this out.

He's a patient captain in the meantime.

He's removed at a measured pace.

The Indians have their own reasons to get close.

That's why I called him and slaughtered him off.

The Indians have no interest in the Russian satellite.

Well, look, the point that I make is cheating.

which I think we've got to realize that poor Americans, we are always worried.

John Cox is very outspoken on this point.

He's absolutely right.

We are always so passionately worried that our foreign policy is going to so enrage another country that they will refuse to accept our aid.

Now, there hasn't been anybody.

I'd like to deeply see what the ambassador says.

Bobby, I would like to.

an interesting position.

Keating recalled when he and I came here as freshmen of Congress in 1947, we were among perhaps 10 Republicans who were supporters of aid to India, and I supported all my life, my political life, still do, and so forth and so on.

But I said, well, I'm not going to support aid to any country that is at that time engaged in military action, period.

So, but then I made the point to Keating, I said, look,

I said, India, I said, rather than, I said, the point that some of our friends in the States say, how can we reassure the Indians?

And you know, they all look at them, how can the Indians reassure us?

Because basically, I said, look at India.

What are their options?

They have three superpowers that they have to deal with.

One is China, the other is Russia, and the other is the United States.

Now,

The only one that they are sure has absolutely no designs on territory, economically, politically, is the United States of America.

We proved it by $10 billion over 20 years without a string and got a kick in the tail of the United Nations every place else.

They cannot say that about the Chinese reserve that they lived in in 1962.

We'll be right back.

Could you not be locked up in a jail cell?

Could not be locked in a jail cell?

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

I don't know what you mean, sir.

I don't know what you mean.

Right now, they've already turned you in every time.