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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nThe Vice President\nMr. Kissinger\n4:00 p.m., 9-10-69\nThe VP said Henry one of the things I wanted to discuss is the lead-\nup situation on Vietnam meeting on Friday. The way it was handled\nwith the press was of quite some embarrassment to me. Particularly\nthe article in the Times this morning.\nK said let me tell you what happened. The original intention was\nthat the President would go to Camp David with these military people\nalone and then the thought was they could not go without the\nSecretaries of State and Defense. Then it was moved to the White\nHouse and we decided to make it an NSC meeting. Ziegler never\nfocused on that. It was to be an informal unannounced meeting.\nI fully understand the embarrassment to you.\nVP said it is just that the newspaper people seize on these things\nto embarrass me. If Ziegler could just be put on notice to be\ncareful. I would have been better to have been excluded altogether.\nBut to be added at the last minute, it was devastating. K said I\nunderstand completely. VP said the only thing Ziegler has\nto understand is that I am a special case as far as the press is\nconcerned. They seize on any chance to embarrass me.\nK said we should be more sensitive to that. You can protect against\nthings you can foresee. K said as soon as I realized what had\nhappened, I made sure you knew you were invited. But the damage\nhad been done as far as the press was concerned.\nThe VP said on this foreign trip I am to make, I have gotten the\nword to focus this around the Philippine Inauguration. K said when\nis the Inauguration? The VP said it will be held on December 30.\nK said I think it is a good idea but this is strictly my personal\nopinion. I was a little unhappy about a trip by you before the\nelections. But after the elections, I think it would be a very ap-\npropriate thing and would give a focus for starting the trip.\nThe VP said my itinerary is set up now as follows: Hawaii,\nPhilippines, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam (off-the-record),\nTaiwan, Korea and Japan. Do you think it advisable? This situation\nwith Greece is something we perhaps should exploit. I would like\nto have your judgment of where I should go.\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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