you had to get the establishment
on your side from the vietnam
war.
he said the key to these people
as john mccloy, one of the
characters in our book.
and he says we should convene
them together and we can dump
them the wise men and they will
do whatever we want.
so that's the joy of the
documents in the interviewing,
which is the way a journalist
tries to take on history.
it was helpful when i did henry
kissinger because every time i
looked up the memos in the
document, they seemed rather
misleading until winston loy
told me guess if you work for
henry mcgill writes three
versions of every memo.
one is for the files and is
totally untrue.
one is for nixon and has its
particular slant.
and what is for henry's personal
files and that's when we tell
the real story.
so i'm trying to get out the
right documents.
i did ask dr. kissinger about
this.
he said yes if i had known now
what i knew then about the
documents i could never have
written a dissertation using