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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nMr. Kissinger\nPeter Flanigan\n9:45 p. m. 6-10-69\nK asked F if he had been giving him publicity in Newsweek that K is the\nonly one standing in the way of (I couldn't hear the rest). F said that\nhe had been hearing a lot from Nancy Hanks about K's night life\nabout his liking to stay up late at night. F said he didn't press her on\nthe details. F said did Newsweek really say that? K said it was no\nhelp to him -- it happens to be true but he would rather have the\nreputation of being a dove. K said they quoted a White House aide as\nsaying that K was the only one standing in the way of a cut and run (?)\npolicy.\nK said on the Johnston Island thing, let's not get it too public yet. F\nsaid the people he spoke to are Ehrlichman, Borman, Chapin and Safire.\nK asked why Safire? F said the President wanted his view on how to get\nthe most use out of it.\nK asked if F knew how far Johnston Island was from Hawaii. F talked\nabout when the President should go to see the splashdown -- he should\nfly to the Hornet in a helicopter and spend the night on the carrier. F.\nsaid he was dead set against the President going just to see them as\nthey went by. F said they had to wear cocoons and the President could\nonly communicate with them from a little 2'x2' window -- it was not\nan\nexciting picture. If it hadn't been for the other thing involved, F said\nhe would have been against it. F said if he is going around the world,\nhe should definitely go there.\nK asked if F had checked out with NASA the chances of failure? F said\nPaine was the only one to check it out with. F said the President wouldn't\nleave before they were on their way back from the moon SO if anything\nwent wrong, he wouldn't leave.\nK said he urged the President not to go to the lift off if he goes to the\nsplashdown. K said he thought it was too much publicity with the trip and\nall -- too much traveling. F said he disagreed with K on that one. K\nsaid okay, you change his mind, F said okay.\nF told K about an article on the first page of the NY Times re ABM and\nMIRV's what the Russians have done and said it reported that not\nonly is it designed for attack on silos -- it is designed for nothing else.\nK said he would definitely read it.\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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