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    "ocrText": "participation through some form of mild general guaranty to the French.\nThey both denounced England's position roundly.\n5. Lunch -- Flemming\nmost\ne\n6. Livingston Hartley -- on Atlantic Union.\n7. Prexy meeting on Wheaties. Present -- the Dulles brothers, Wilson,\nKyes, Radford, Strauss. Two agonizingly awful hours. Kyes read\na 6-page memo as a substitute for the speech which was in effect\nhis plan to budget defense on a three-year instead of a one-year basis.\nThis was going to restore confidence at home and abroad and solve\nall problems\nWilson proposed doing nothing, since the Soviets were now\nbeginning to educate their youth, and an educated youth would over -\nthrow the Soviets.\nFoster Dulles at his most judicial, and therefore straddling fence.\nStrauss considerd himself merely atomic expert. Radford absolutely\nsilent.\nI carried fight as much as possible, but couldn't avoid certain words\nwhich Kyes, for instance, could take exception to, such as telling\nthe President that the Kyes proposal was fascinating but had nothing\nto do with the matter at hand. Kyes overstepped himself by making\na reference to somebody handing the President an umbrella if he\noffered in a speech to turn any fissionable material over to a United Nations\npool.\nFinally passed note to Allen Dulles saying I couldn't fight this alone,\nat which he got into the act with startling vehemence. Meeting broke\nup on note that President would re-read Wheaties that night.\nEpisode unhappy per se, but also in context of morning session, Joe\nDodge's report on no firm hand on Defense budget, all the other\nundecided things swirling around Presidential head, make it look\nas though he actually did not understand what was going on and\ndidn't care to do anything about it.\nP.S. -- only moment of comic relief was when (Lewis Strauss'\nalarm wrist watch went off right in the middle of a\nPresidential statement"
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