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    "ocrText": "-2-\nK: My basic concern is our overall foreign policy.\nF: My concern is to get the President reelected.\nPresident might\nnot be able to go along with the Trade Bill. This would be a solution\nmore acceptable than the trade bill. We could have the same trade\nrestrictions but less stringent. This way they have to consult but if\nthey do not agree they do not have to. The President is going to sign\nthe bill. President has said he is for textile quotas no matter how.\nK: I am not sold on the idea that we are\nshifting responsibility\nfrom us to them.\nF: I think it is just a matter of semantics.\nPresident has\ndiscretion under the bill and if he does not use it he is accused\nK: You have this choice and this is the\nevery time we have\noperated that way in my area it has been a disaster. However, I have\nno strong view. I got dragged in through the back door on this thing.\nIf I felt strongly I would take it to the President.\nF: You got in through the back door. I got in through you. I am just\nworried about the overall interest of the Administration. Have you\nbeen reading the cables from Japan?\nK: No\nF: Sato seems determined to settle it. Second questionor Bob\nAnderson, former Treasury (?) and now Ambassador to Panama. negotiations.\nHe worked with Jack Irwin and Irwin seems to like him a lot. The\nPresident wants to place Ryme (phonetic?) and Marrott (phonetic ?)\n- what about taking Anderson's place?\nK: I thought the President has approved a few months ago to keep\nAnderson in that spot.\nF: I went to Haldeman to find out what the background on it was and he\nsaid he had talked with you.\nK: I think I have a piece of paper approving Anderson.\nF: I have a November 21st memorandum (reading)\nK: That did not come from me.\nF: Could you check on it.\nK: I do not have the files on it. Check it with Haig. I have no feeling\non this. Anderson is a pain in the neck. Everything he has touched he\nhas turned into personal advantage."
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