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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nAmb. Mosbacher\n1/6/71 4:25 p.m.\nK: What can I do for you?\nM: I don't know that there's anything. You asked me to call you by\nthis evening to let you know my thinking. I feel this way -- if I am very\nseriously interested in doing it I would like to talk with you and perhaps\nwith the President to get an idea of what course it would take and what it\nwould involve.\nK: My advice is don't bother the President. You can never make a\ntreaty with the President. He wants you in the Administration because\nhe trusts you. What form it will take is between you and me. I will\narrange a meeting with the President for you if you want it but I think it\nis a mistake to do it. I think you should tell Rogers that you are interest-\ned in the job. I talked to Haldeman and that's what he thinks you should do.\nM: I'll talk to him as soon as he gets back. And when you are back\nI would like to talk with you about two things: In looking into this, I find\nsome things. In protocol rank I would be with Assistant Secretaries (?)\nbut my working rank would have me working with Charlie.\nK: But doesn't every ambassador do that?\nM: I don't think so. It doesn't matter to me where I siet at a table.\nK: You should get the same rank as any other ambassador.\nM: I'm not worried about rank, but I am concerned with the first\nthing I said to you. I don't want to feel that I am working in the bureau-\ncracy. I don't want or need that. If I am working directly with you, that's\ngreat.\nK: That's our attraction to having you in this job. I can always\nguarantee you access to me. It will take a little finnessing but it is to\nour XXIX advantage for you to do this for a year or SO SO that after the\nelection of '72 we can move you to a more substantive job.\nThat's why\nM:\nI am interested. Having very little background on\nthis I need some time to become proficcient in this area.\nK: You are going to be an increasingly influential citizen as the\nyears go by even if we are defeated in '72. It is important that you speak\nfrom something more than just protocol. Linowitz has build a fair\nreputation out of this job and others have too and SO can you. Even assuming"
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