Never Mind Frost/Nixon, Here’s Ginsberg/Kissinger…

Nan Hunter has posted on her blog the transcript of a phone conversation from April 23, 1971, between Henry Kissinger and the poet Allen Ginsberg.

Ginsberg was trying to set-up a dialogue among Kissinger (and other Nixon officials) and peace activists. He was concerned that Kissinger might not know how to end the Vietnam War and he said he had some suggestions. (Unfortunately, they’re not in the transcript.) The conversation slalomed back-and-forth between the seemingly serious and the weird. I love this bit about the proposed meeting:

G: It would be even more funny to do it on television.

K: What?

G: It would be even more useful if we could do it naked on television.

K: (Laughter )

I will leave that to your imaginations.