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    "ocrText": "2\nK:\nSo, will it be necessary for the President to get into it with Pompidou?\nC:\nHell, yes. Henry, I have got to come and talk to you. Rogers is\nleaving tomorrow to go to NATO. I have got to somehow get Bill\nbriefed and I guess the best way is to get the President to talk to\nBill.\nK:\nThe President is in Key Biscayne.\nC:\nI know. He would have to do it on the phone.\nK:\nWell, what do you want Bill to know.\nC:\nI want Bill to hold firm. We had four hours on trade and we have\nto keep them down. Tom Barber made himself look silly saying\nhe didn't realize this was a matter under discussion. He didn't\nthink this was a matter of serious concern. I said we have been try-\ning to tell him that for three-and-a-half months. You can be sure\nthere is not going to be a solution to the problem until something\nis done. You can be sure there will never be an Administration re-\nquesting changing the price of gold unless it is accompanied by trade\nmatter changes on the measure. The net of it was we can't do it\nhere. So I said, Let's bring in Barr and the agricultural experts.\nWe had Eberly who talked to the Germans, French, etc. He called\nthe British and they politely said no. The French said no. We\nread that off in the meeting. This went on for four hours. We had\na real rough one stirring on this. You aks us to take you on, to\nhave faith in you when you have done nothing for three months. We\ngot Barr in there and told him to get negotiations going immediately.\nSo Eberly is going back there Monday with agricultural people.\nThe thing we have to realize is that we are not going to get the\nalignment we could.\nK:\nI don't think we are going to get any alignment unless we change the\nprice of gold.\nC:\nMy judgment is that if we\nto give on the price of gold what\ndo we get. Not a goddamn thing. The only thing I can get are some\nstuff on burden sharing. The Germans told me we could get some-\nthing on trade, and specifically the following:\n1. An agreement on grain storage for this year and next.\nThis is enormous in the farm belt.\n2. An agreement on pricing - agricultural pricing. Maybe\neven a declaration on farm pricing."
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