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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nThe President\n7:30 p.m. 10/10/69\np. 2\nP said it's like Acheson's statement about where is the line of demarcation/\nK said yes, but it's different because here there is no line of demarcation\nif we yield. P said we won't yield. P said he doesn't want the enemy to\nthink that we are affected by them [the protesters]. He had said he would\nnot be affected by such things and he's not going to be. K said it is sure\nthey were just feeling us out, that we must show that there will be no\npolicy by confrontation.\nP asked again about Humphrey; asked if Humphrey's man had said it was\nworse than before. P said those sons of bitches were playing a partisan\nline, that they were now out to destroy Humphrey. K said people were\nsaying that the P is like Johnson; said they just want the P to be another\nJohnson. P said but Johnson was SO inept with his hardness, that we are\nnot going to fool around.\nK said the November 3 speech should be a factual listing of what the\nPresident has done. K said that was very impressive. P said he's not\ngoing to restate all that on television. He said we would put that out, but\nhe'll be speaking to two audiences: home and abroad. He said for the\nhome audience he simply wanted a simple, uncomplicated and very brief\nstatement, not a long restatement of what he's done. K said, but make\nthe public understand that you offered to send emissaries. The P said,\nand we received their emissaries. K said the P had made two overtures\nbefore the inauguration - - that would be very impressive to the people.\nP said he would mention that for the first time he revealed what had\nbefore been diplomatically classified material; that he wanted the people\nto know. P said to K that he wanted him to get all the Rogers and Lodge\ncontacts SO that we could put that in. K pointed out that Lodge, Habib,\nand Rodgers had had many meetings and he (K) had also - - that that should\nbe mentioned, and then the P should list all the things he did. K can list\nsecret contacts.\nP said in the Joint Chiefs meeting on Saturday [Oct. 11] he was going to\nlet Wheeler give a report; said he was going to force them to talk about\nVietnam. He wants the discussion to be about that. K said Wheeler should\ngive about 10 minutes on Vietnam, and the P said then he would ask them\nwhat to do about Vietnam. P said they would probably give x him the\nstandard answers about the 42-month plan, and he would say that was no good.\nK said they should believe that P is serious about the November 1 plan;\nif not, they won't give him any planning cooperation. Must be careful about\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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