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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nJoe Sisco\n5/1/70 11:25 a. m.\nS: You must be pooped.\nK: It was quite an exercise.\nS: I sure hope it works.\nK: As I look at it, the State Department can't lose either way. If\nit works It's good for the country and if it fails you might be rid of me.\nS: You are the tower of strength. Don't talk that way. I'm cal-\nling on the Jordenian arms thing. The King decided to send his assistant\nto Washington next Thursday. He wants to talk about the whole broad\nrange of things. It's a golden opportunity for us.\nK: It nearly quadruples the artillery.\nS: But it's peanuts compared to what the Soviets are not selling but\ngiving to them.\nK: Could we have a meeting on this early next week?\nK: Soviet pilots as well as the other? S: Yes.\nS: Yes. / But this guy is coming Thursday. I need to know about the\narms package. It has been in the offing for a long time. We can play\nthe timing, but I need to be able to surface it. I don't want him to come and end\nup empty-handed. But if I tell him not to come it will be taken as a signal\nby the King.\nK: He can get something, but we should do it as an integrated total.\nS: I see your point. But the question of the pilots and the Israelis is\ngoing to be prolonged.\nK: No it isn't, because we won't have it.\nS: Well, our intelligence community can't make up its mind what it means.\nK: But you know why that is.\nS: Yes.\nK: And the President has made up his mind. I would like for the President\nto have a chance, which he hasn't had yet, to focus on the artillery side of it.\nIthink we've had to make too many tactical decisions there. This is a more\ndangerous area than Vietnam."
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