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    "ocrText": "-2-\nK: With analytical knowledge?\nSANITIZED COPY\nR: Yes.\nK: What I have in mind - I find\nvery difficult. He is an all-out\nArabist and I can't get him to present a fair picture to the President.\nI am not asking him to present a pro-Israeli one, I just don't want\nevery memo loaded in one direction. If the President wants to give arms\nto Pakistan I don't want that shuttled around the bureaucracy for months.\nI have been thinking of sending him back\nWhat do you think?\nR: I didn't find working with him that bad. I would not have described\nas a pro-Arabist. Things may have happened and only you can\nmake the judgment. I think that as a professional Foreign Service\nofficer Marshal could pick up the account and rise to it. That is funda-\nmental, you have got to be comfortable in your people.\nK: I just don't know whether Wright can pick him up.\nR: I regard him as a very bright officer. I think he will pick things\nup fast. His ties have been with the Far East.\nK: Right now\nserves my purpose, but for the wrong reasons.\ne\nR: Let me ask you just one question. What I found in dealing with\nI found\na man of very fine character and loyalty. Therefore when\nPresident Johnson took a certain view, I would say this is the way the\nPresident wants it. Have you had a chance to talk to\nand tell\nhim what you want?\nK: Yes, and we have some copies of memos of very high classification\nthat he XX has been passing to people.\nR: If he has come into that relationship with you whom he must serve,\nyou must get rid of him. Marshal Wright is a fellow of integrity,\nexperience, skill, who can pick up the accounting fast. So I wouldn't\nworry about that. Have you had a chance to talk to Marshal?\nK: Yes.\nR: If you are comfortable with him it may be a good idea to take a fresh\nman into the Middle East.\nms\nSANITIZED COPY\n(NLN07-31/14: P 2062]"
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