NIXON'S REACTION TO MUNICH MASSACRE

READ THE TRANSCRIPT. NIXON WANTED TO GO AFTER COUNTRIES HARBORING THE TERRORISTS. HE WANTED TO GO TO THE FUNERALS AND SHOW HIS SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL. KISSINGER TALKS HIM OUT OF IT.

How Nixon got shot of Munich By Amir Oren (Haaretz)

Eleven members of the Israeli delegation to the Munich Olympics were murdered by people belonging to the Black September organization, or killed in a failed rescue attempt, on September 5, 1972. The Israeli reaction has already fueled scores of articles, books and recently Steven Spielberg's film "Munich" as well. One angle of the story remains vague: the politics and diplomacy in the wake of the terror attack. Now the missing information has been supplied, thanks to the declassification last summer of secret documents from U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration. Some verbatim excerpts from these documents provide a rare lesson in personal and international relations, with the help of an American team then headed by President Nixon, Secretary of State William Rogers, his rival - and ultimately successor - National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, and Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig.