CABLE TO HENRY CABOT LODGE FROM HENRY A. KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-3-1-7-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 5, 1969
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/11/03: LOC-HAK-3-1-7-9
CONFIDENTIAL/EYES ONLY
November 5, 1969
TO: Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge
FROM: Henry A. Kissinger
REF: WH 92851
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On consideration, it seems preferable to make only general
reference in your plenary statement to recent opinion polls in the U.S.
The Gallup Poll sent you in the referenced message should be used for
backgrounding with the press, rather than on the record in public
sessions, lest it simply serve to stimulate efforts by the other side
to find polls which might contradict or diminish the force of its results.
CONFIDENTIAL/EYES ONLY
MORI/CDF
C03357425
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
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? PURSUANT 'TO OUR TELEP ONE CO VERSATION THIS DATE THE
FOLLOWS TRE RESULTS OF THE onLyP TELEPHONE POLL&
1. 7et PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE RATION HEARD THE SPEECHe
?SO PERCENT OF TNT LIMNERS REPLIED AFFTRMATIVELY TO THE QUESTION,
'DO YOU SUPPORT PRESIDENT NIXON' S. PLANS FOR ENDING THE WAR?"
40 TO Tn ?QUESTION 'IN GENERAL ARE YOU SATISFIED ?OR
nATISFIEP WITS -THE PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM FOR TROOP If/IT HD A A
PS.FT FORTH /N SPEECH?", 77 PERCENT REPLIED SATISFIED,
PERrENT REPLIED DTSSATISFIED, 10 PERCENT REPLIED NO OPINION,
zs. In THE oursTioN "IN THE Lien or Fir PRESIDENT'S SPEECH,
DO YOU TR tt MORATORIUMS OR DEMONSTRATIONS ARE myrkrot, OR
HA9MFUL TO THE ATTATRIetrr OF PEACE?", 12 PERCZNT 'REPLIED THEY
VERE HELPFUL, 72 PERCENT REPLIED THEY ARE HARMFUL AND 14 PERCENT
HAD NO OP/RION?
4. TO TNE! QUEST ION 'DO YOU THINE THE PRESIDENT? SALS
V114 SRING ABOUT THE 4Tnrostirr OF TIC VIETNAM, VAR?". 4, PERCENT
Rrin.tro AFFIRMATIVELY 25 PERCENT NEGATIVELY AND 24 RCENT
ED NOT KNOW
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