H: That's right.
P: He just doesn't know. He just sort of blubbers around. I don't know how he does TV so well.
H: Well, he's a sensation on that--that goes to the [unintelligible] meaning of the thing, you know. What's his drawback, is really an asset.
P: Ya. If you would do this. Pat, and tell Codus. [Unintelligible] but I will go to Camp David [unintelligible] half-hour. Key Biscayne--she might want to stay there if she can go in less than a half-hour with an escort. Do you think you can? Frankly, Miami Beach [unintelligible] but we can arrange it either way? Leave it to her choice.
H: It wouldn't take as long.
P: Leave it to her choice--she'd--it's
H: She'd--it's so miserable. If she's at Miami Beach she'll be a prisoner in that hotel.
P: Yeah. Tell her, tell her that's fine. But it's up to her.
H: Fair enough!
P: I'll be anxious to [unintelligible] sign that stuff [unintelligible] I suppose most of our staff [unintelligible] but that Six Crises is a damned good book, and the [unintelligible] story reads like a novel--the Hiss case--Caracas was fascinating. The campaign of course for anybody in politics should be a must because it had a lot in there of how politicians are like. [Unintelligible] elections, and how you do things. [Unintelligible] as of that time. I think part of the problem as an example, for example, I'm just thinking--research people something they really missed [unintelligible] Burns. Pat and I, she said [unintelligible] no, she had remembered. She remembered [unintelligible] that was pretty far back [unintelligible]. And Jimmy Burns said well [unintelligible] hard for me to come, but I just want you to know [unintelligible] but because [unintelligible] want you to know you are still my friend [unintelligible]. Wonderful item to put in.
H: Is that in the book?
P: It's in the book! Hell yes. It's in the book.
H: Is it?
P: [Unintelligible] Why don't you reread it?
1:04 p.m.-1:13 p.m.
P: O.K., just postpone scratching noises [unintelligible] Just say [unintelligible] very bad to have this fellow Hunt, ah, he knows too damned much, if he was involved -- you happen to know that? If it gets out that this is all involved, the Cuba thing would be a fiasco. It would make the CIA look bad, it's going to make Hunt look bad, and it is likely to blow the whole Bay of Pigs thing which we think would be very unfortunate -- both for CIA and for the country, at this time, and for American foreign policy. Just tell him to lay off. Don't you?
H: Yep. That's the basis to do it on. Just leave it at that.
P: I don't know if he'll get any ideas for doing it because our concern political [unintelligible]. Helms is not one to [unintelligible] I would just say, look it, because of the Hunt involvement, whole cover basically this--
H: Yep. Good move.
P: Well, they've got some pretty good ideas on this Meany thing. Shultz did a good paper. I read it all. [voices fade]