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    "ocrText": "TELCON\n/Kissinger\n11:10 a. m.\n9/18/70\nK: You are stirring up my ex-colleagues again.\nVP: They stir SO easily.\nK: I know it's not intentional.\nVP: I called on the campaign swing. It's obvious that some candidates for the\nSenate are unversed on foreign affairs. Mrs. Romney's statements that she has to\ngo on TV against Hart and wondering how she can defend the Greek dictatorship.\nI told her to talk to Haig. This kind of lack of preparation, she will get cut\nup in pieces against Hart. Others -- Wald in Whoming. They don't have the\nanswers. I wonder if one of your bright young people could fix a packet and send it\nto these candidates. They don't know what's going on.\nK:\nOr establish a focal point that could be called.\nVP: They could come in with questions if they know the questions to ask but\nthey don't know the questions to ask. One hadn't even heard of the Nixon Doctrine,\nThey are going to be on TV as spokesman of the Administration.\nK: We are resuming military equipment to Greece.\nVP: The President mentioned that. It's not public yet?\nK: Dec. 22. What's you impression on the campaign.\nVP: We are hurting.\nK: The other side?\nVP: Yes. You can see from the attacks we are getting.\nK: When you get Ted Kennedy attacking student radicals, you know it's different.\nVP: The heckling at Kent and in Saginaw was a real plus. One of the most important\nwas the 90 minutes with David Frost. 4 student leaders in debate\nformat. I am taping in xxxxxxxxxx. Monday. Any particular hard points I should\nhammer home if the opportunity shows itself you might give me a short memo.\nWhat's most effective. I thought in the area of foreign policy there will be the\nanti-war situation but it's a question of reminding these people of things thatx\nthey may have forgotten.\nK: The more militant they are, it's better for you.\nVP: If I am informed in my discourse. I must have superior information in every"
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