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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President\n(Brought in 3/29/71)\npage 5\nP: I think we have to have in mind the, of course\nthat\nour Democratic candidates and the Democrats generally may jump right\nin here. Now this could prove to be, as I said yesterday, -- it isn't\nany wishful thinking -- but it could prove to be a very serious mistake\nfor them. I mean to jump in\nK: That's what I think\nP: And then particularly if we pull it off. You know they were\nplaying a pretty clever little line there, that well, after all, they had\nbeen supporting the Administration and all this coming out\nK: I think that would be much harder to deal with. If what we do\nworks, then if they had taken a policy of support or ifx had said January\n1, 1973 they could emerge as pretty responsible. This way I think we\nhave a devestating record of how these people turned on their President\nevery time things got tough. I talked to somebody yesterday on the East\nCoast whose wife is studying at Wellesley while he's getting a degree and\nhad said a Professor there wanted to get his history class today pass a\nresolution for a fixed date and only two supported it out of a class of 40\nand the other 38 girls were against it, which amazed me. His point was\nthat the students are getting fed up with this constant agitation by their\nprofessors.\nP: Well, we're going to have to play it very steady and tough and\nI'm going to turn all the partisans loose on these guys this next week.\nThey re going to have to start attacking them for aid and comfort to the\ncan\nenemy. I think if you/ get to every columnist you know on that point\nthat these people are on a very very bad wicket here. That, you know,\nthe line that I gave at that breakfast.\nK: I thought that was\ntried to reconstruct it yesterday\nand wrote it down just SO that we have a record of it because that was\nreally\nAnd also it was tactically clever but it also took a tremendous\namount of courage for the President to step up to them and say I have full\nresponsibility for this: If it fails I'11 take the responsibility but don't you\nmake it fail.\nP: But these fellows are\nThese fellows are\nThe other\nside\nI think what ought to be done is to, just a few\nI think if\na very responsible columnist would get up and hit this, even though he's\non our side, like Alsop or Dick Wilson, you know, run over in your own\nmind the people. There's Alsop, Wilson, Bill White is another one."
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