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    "ocrText": "R\nTELCON\nHarlow/Kissinger\n12:34\np.\nm.\n6/18/71\nH: How did you come out on the problem of last night on what the man down\nsouth should do?\nK: Our policy here is to divulge on a need to know basis.\nH: I need to know because I am curious.\nK: I just had the same question. We had an impassioned talk and listed the xp\npros and cons and never came to a xxxxxx conclusion. If we want to play it in\nXXXXX conventional way heshould talk and we should say something or vice versay\nor someone could get on moral ground and say we are defending on principle\nand say you cannot steal 47 documents and can't take things out of context and\ncalumny people and if they\nwe should do it alone. I don't see what he adds\nto us.\nHe made\nH: Ezened one observation that is the nugget in my mind and I was trying to stop\nit in my chat with Chuck. I don't think he should do it. After he talked and makes\nhis attack then if you said as last evening from that point forward our end is to\n(support) LBJ.\nK: And to say LBJ defends while we defend the principle, there will be 3 people\nwho understand that. Then Johnson and Nixon are fighting shoulder to shoulder.\nI would rather go alone. We can say we don't know what's in the documents but\nit's one-sided. Chuck Colson thinks you are in favor of LBJ making a statement.\nH: I told him I agreed with you.\nK: You must have said you agreed with you -- seriously, he said this morning\nyou came around to his view.\nH: I gave up after our last conversation. After you talked with Walt.\nK: (We gain nothing by an LBJ Z statement). It's a personal matter and doesn't\nhelp us and irrelevant to our cause. It puts Johnson and Nixon on the same plane.\nHexIsaid xhelwill speak on the record but not after\nLBJ has spoken.\nH: So it waits in limbo in the moment.\nK: I will talk with Colson and turn it off. I think the y will go."
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