[lbo-talk] great moments in diplomacy

Dorene Cornwell dorenefc at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 22:23:47 PST 2008


Hmmm

Add indexing Kissinger tapes to my list of jobs I THINK i am glad gets done and also glad I personally do not have to do.

I cannot decide who I would less want to see naked, Allen Ginsburg or Henry Kissinger.but it could be interesting to try out the whole idea as, say a South Park episode....

DC

On 12/24/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [from a NYT story on newly published transcripts of Nixon-Kissinger
> phone calls]
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/washington/24kissinger.html>
>
> In April 1971, Mr. Kissinger accepted a call from the beat poet Allen
> Ginsberg, who hoped to arrange a meeting between top Nixon
> administration officials and antiwar activists.
>
> "Perhaps you don't know how to get out of the war," Ginsberg ventured.
>
> Mr. Kissinger said he was open to a meeting. "I like to do this," he
> said, "not just for the enlightenment of the people I talk to, but to
> at least give me a feel of what concerned people think."
>
> Then Ginsberg upped the ante. "It would be even more useful if we
> could do it naked on television," he said.
>
> Mr. Kissinger's reply is transcribed simply as "Laughter."
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