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...George McGovern's rattling bus-train-airplane caravan two years ago. "But in this case, the fatigue is compounded by the difference in time zones between the U.S. and the Middle East." Fischer had expected to recover from transatlantic jet lag during the President's stopover in Salzburg, Austria, but it was in Salzburg that Secretary of State Kissinger threatened to resign, and sent the press corps into a stretch of unanticipated overtime work...
Last week Henry Kissinger's cloud burst, and he suddenly found himself in the Watergate storm. In an extraordinary, intensely emotional press conference in Salzburg, Austria, on the eve of Richard Nixon's trip to the Middle East, the Secretary of State vented his anger at what he considered unjust charges against his honor. He threatened, in imperial tones befitting a President, to resign...
...Kissinger do it? His friends blame it on exhaustion,* compounded by hubris and an extreme sensitivity to criticism. Kissinger, 51, himself admitted during the Salzburg conference that his first meeting with the press and its tough questions about Watergate after his return from the Middle East left him "irritated, angered, flustered, discombobulated." For days after, Kissinger brooded over that press conference. He thought that the attacks were unfair and exaggerated out of all proportion when compared with his achievements in foreign policy. He conveyed his unhappiness to friends, newsmen and legislators and sought their advice over the weekend before...
...adverse newspaper editorials badgering him to come clean on the wiretaps. Within hours of his departure with Nixon for the Middle East, he sent a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee requesting a hearing on his role in the wiretaps; then he decided to hold the explosive Salzburg press conference...
...Choice. Even Kissinger's staunchest supporters agree that his Salzburg press conference was a mistake. By threatening to resign, Kissinger simply added to his troubles. Until he overdramatized the situation, not many people took it too seriously. They wanted explanations, not a resignation. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in particular, was extremely friendly to Kissinger. The committee was perfectly willing to forget about the whole wiretap episode in the interest of letting Kissinger function as Secretary of State. But now that he has demanded another investigation of the affair, the committee has no choice but to comply. Its hearings...