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    "ocrText": "X 3\nelse is doing it for you and you do not know what a good job you are\ndoing.\nK: Mr. President, if those regiments had gone into II Corps\n(talking about the Laotian operation cleaning out troops that would have\nbeen used in II Corps against American troops) and we would not have\nthe crack ARVN troops in there to fight against them. As you said,\nthey were not sitting there to enjoy the scenery.\nP: I want them to get going on that second operation. Any kind of\nsecond operation would be good. It would have a good psychological\neffect on the North Vietnamese and let them know that we are not\ndefeated there. This was the plan.\nK:\nusing this as one climatic effort. I do not think they have\nenough steam to keep it up themselves. I sent a very strong cable to\nBunker.\nP: I want them hit again. Even Abrams doesn't realize the significance\nof hitting them again while we are pulling out.\nK: I want to make sure you know this Mr. President. They are authorized\nto make one more strike.\nP: Yes I know that. If the weather is good.\nK: Yes and they think the weather will be good and they are going to\nuse the authority before it runs out. Tomorrow morning we will announce\nthat this is now terminated and was protective reaction.\nP: Is there any press reaction?\nK: There is some. There is a ticker item but they call it air interdiction\nand don't seem too UXIXIX upset about it. [Hak reading ticker item]\nresponse to attacks on our forces.\nP: That will follow up my saying that this is not tit for tat.\nK: Navy reporting seems accurate\nP: If it is 1/10 of the truth it is pretty good. But the shock has to be\npretty substantial for them. Well, since you have your message off I just\nwanted to be sure that they would run that second think in Laos. They\nreally don't have to do much.\nK: Just in a 4 (few?) days and then get out.\nTheir units have taken\na pretty bad shallacking (?) too."
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