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-8- THE SECRETARY: I know. Dobrynin complained to me just one hour after you gave the speech and wanted to know what you found admirable in Chinese youth. I told him I didn't know.

THE PRESIDENT: I only gave them three sentences.

AMBASSADOR SCALI: But remember, there haven't been any pictures of the Chinese eating hot dogs with you.

THE PRESIDENT: Will they exploit that? Kissinger warned me against it.

THE SECRETARY: It's not a bad thing to have them worried a little bit.

THE PRESIDENT: If that's the only worry we give them, they're well off.

SECRETARY GENERAL: I notice that while they attack the Soviet Union bitterly they are rather tolerant of the United States.

THE SECRETARY: When one of our members on the Congressional delegation in Peking asked why they always attack us and the Soviets together, the answer was, interestingly enough, that the attacks against us are much less intense than those against the Soviets, and that is true.

AMBASSADOR SCALI: Mr. President, we go out of our way to tell the Chinese approximately what we plan to do so there are no great shocks. There seems, in fact, to be a feeling of trust which was begun by the Secretary in his relations with them.

THE SECRETARY: One interesting thing is that when the Chinese give their word, they keep it.

THE PRESIDENT: Hale Boggs and I met Huang Hua in China in 1972. He seemed a bright and charming man who is a chain-smoker. In the two or three hours we were together he never stopped smoking.

SECRETARY GENERAL: Yes, and they are always drinking some kind of Chinese schnapps. May I now ask about another subject? That is, with reference to the economic and social situation. I would certainly appreciate it if the