From an April 23, 1971, telephone conversation between Allen Ginsberg and Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser to President Richard Nixon. Eugene McCarthy had left the Senate that January. Richard Helms was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Rennie Davis and David Dellinger were leaders in the antiwar movement; Ralph Abernathy was a civil-rights activist and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The transcript was made public in December by the National Security Archive.
allen ginsberg: My idea is to arrange a conversation between yourself, Helms, McCarthy, and maybe even Nixon with Rennie Davis,…