It was a problem, the president reflected, that in the White House they had let themselves become preoccupied with minor things. So they worried about the Chilean elections and whether or not there would be a vote in Guinea, “and all that bull, but the only thing that really matters” at this point, he said, was the war.12 Let the State Department handle these other matters: “I don’t give a damn what happens in those other places now. There is nothing we can do about it anyway.” Going forward, he didn’t want to see anything about Chile, or Biafra, or Guinea, or “all this other crap.”
