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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nCharles Meyer\nMr. Kissinger\n11:00 p. m., 7/14\nK said at last we have a war of our own. M said you have made my\nevening SO far. K said we are trying. M said he just talked to the OAS\nteam and that we will probably be able to help them with a plane. He\nsaid no one was going to go until tomorrow morning. K asked M if he\nthought a message from the President would help, the P would be willing\nto do SO. K said his instinct was no. M said he concurred. K said the\nP also wanted him to check with Rockefeller and he offered to call each\nof the Presidents. M said he loves Nelson but what could he do that the\nrest of the world can't. He said he didn't think Nelson could make that\nmuch difference. M said he gives him credit and he isn't against him.\nK said his instinct was to do nothing other than what we have done. M\nsaid exactly the same. K said we didn't want to get into a position where\nwe have to settle every war in America (?) M said the plane standing by\nmakes much more sense than hopeful words. K said we don't want to get\nthe President's prestige involved. K asked if M thought this thing could\ngo on much longer? M said let me tell you want the Salvadoran Ambassador\nsaid. He said it wasn't going to be a very big war -- just a little shot\nhere and a little shot there. K said he was just trying to respond to the\nPresident's request. Should we call in the two ambassadors and express\nthe hope that it will be settled peacefully. M said the Salvadoran Ambassador\nwas coming into the office in the morning. The Honduran Ambassador just\ncalled the office about asking transportation for the OAS team. M said the\nHondurans are the injured party at the moment and we have not asked them\nin.\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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