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Richard Haas of the Council on Foreign Relations is busy wrapping up a book

due out January 10th and we're going to talk here about the disarrayes among our

international relations.

You were mentioning a get-together with the young Turks,

David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, George Schultz.

I know what you think of our international relations.

What a gentleman of that vintage think of the zaininess of our American international relations?

Well, I won't speak for them.

What I simply say is when I talk to people like them and others,

there's real concern that things that we thought, Tom, that were given, that we could assume,

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