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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nthat he is there and even if they are not in Stutgart he will probably\nbe travelling around.\nE: I don't want to be of any inconvenience to you.\nK: You are not inconveniencing me. I will just draft one basic letter\nand send it to all the people. It won't be work for me. Just for my\nsecretary.\nE: And she is past the point of caring.\nK: Past the point of caring.\nE: You should have been around for the meeting with the Jewish leaders.\nSchultz and I were in there doing budget stuff and Bill Rogers pranced\nin with the Jewish leaders and we got roped into attending the meeting.\nK: The President called me last night. He thought it went\nextraordinarily well. I don't know\nE: It did. It was a very good meeting. There is a little anecdote I\nwould like to tell you about it though. The meeting brought up points\nof having confidence and trust, etc. At the end they agreed on the line\nto take about any leak of this and talked about confidence and trust.\nThen the President got into his bag of goodies and started distributing\nboxes of cufflinks and things. As they were leaving this one little\nJewish guy kept looking into his box and\ntalking sort of to himself. I thought he was praying. Finally, he\nturned to the President and said, Mr. President I want you to understand\nthat this is not a matter of confidence but there is nothing in my box.\nThen there was a great shuffling around while they dedix decided whether\nto take a pair out of another box and put them into the box with the signature\nor whether to sign another box. It was a high point in the Presidency.\nYou should have been there.\nK: Oh yes. I would have contributed a lot. He was all charged up about\nit and wanted to make a statement but I told him I didn't think it was\na good idea.\nE: Joe Alsop was in hanging crepe about how bad things were.\nK: He took Haig to the Rive Gauche for lunch. That's how bad things are.\nHe doesn't do that for me.\nE: Me either. He drinks my coffee."
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