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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nHal Saunders\nMr. Kissinger\n4/4/69\nHAK said Hal, I think this briefing book we have is useless\nfor the President. He just does not operate that way. HAk said\nit is much too much. Putting this before the P guarantees he will\nnot look at it. It is not in a form he likes.\nS said well, I got with Sneider and he said it was exactly\nlike the format of the book for the Gorton meeting.\nHAK said what you have is right but much too short.\nActually, what you had in the memo to me on \"Where we Stand\"\nis much more what he likes.\nS said, can we assume he has seen that memo?\nHAK said, no we cannot assume he has seen it. am having\nall the Middle East stuff put in the book for him before he sees\nHussein. HAK said to S, you will have to assume that the book we\nput together is the only thing he will have. HAK said one thing\nshould be the State of play with Egypt, another the state of play\nwith Jordanians and then some talking points. HAK said then the\nrest is background.\nS said there is a summary of talking points and right behind\nthat is a three or four page memorandum elaborating on that.\nHAK said, I am sorry, I did not see that. HAK said what\nyou have to do is put your stuff into the front of the book. HAK\nsaid redo the book. Put first the covering memorandums, then\nthe talking points and then background.\nS said how about the Rogers memorandum.\nHAK said we will give it to him in separate paper. I will tell\nAl what I want.\nS said, fine, I will be in tomorrow and work with Al on\nit.\nmlh\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified."
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