I said I would like to review a recent book, by Seymour Hersh, about Henry Kissinger. "You didn’t like it," he said. I said that was true. He said, "It will be like your book, or your piece about Pauline Kael. I agreed with you. I hate journalists, but you would go for the jugular." I said that might be true. I would like to do a reporting piece, then, about Henry Kissinger— although there might be a problem, in that he had become a friend. Mr. Gottlieb said he hated Kissinger.
