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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nPage 4\nRN: You got to remember this to--the time they could have cancelled\nit when it would have done them the most good and us the most harm,\nis the day after. Right\nHAK: Exactly or two or three days.\nWe notified today there is a\ntreaty on the seabed and they want to -- it is now a question of\nexchanging instruments of ratification and they are willing to do that\nnext week--not a major thing, but just shows they are doing business\nas usual.\nRN: Seems to me you handled your meeting with him just right yesterday\nby taking that hard line well look now if you are talking about knocking\noff what we are already doing, there is no contest, if you are talking\nabout not doing more, then we can do business.. that is the way you put\nit to him, huh?\nHAK: Exactly, that is exactly the words I used.\nRN: I hope you get some rest over the weekend.. had planned that\nyou and I\nwe going to go to Florida this week and get ready\nfor this damn summit-how are we going to do it now.\nHAK: I think you could still go down on Wednesday, Mr. President\n--in fact I think you should..I think when it becomes clear that the\nsummit is going on, if you say you are going down to prepare for the\nsummit, I think that would be quite honestly the best use of your time.\nIf you could go down Tuesday night or Wednesday morning and come\nback here Friday night, because you have a grueling 10 days ahead\nof you\nRN: And another thing too, I was just sitting here making my notes up\nfor another thing--I hadn't realized what a hell of a grueling six weeks\nwe already had. If you stop to think what we have been through\nthe offensive.. then the April 26 speech was not easy--you remember\nHAK: Then the lonliness of all of these decisions\nRN: Then I was just thinking when I was talking to Rose this morning\nthat Saturday morning when I dictated the first draft, the goddamn tape\nmachine wore out.-I had to do it all over again--It has been a little\ntiring\nHAK: I think if you could get about by Tuesday night you would be absolutely\nsafe in announcing you are going down to prepare for the summit and"
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