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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nHaig/Sec. Kissinger\nMonday, January 7, 1974\n3:05 p.m.\nK: We have got to have the Italian President come over. They\nalready know it and it will be an uproar if he does not come.\nI think it will do the President some good.\nH : I do to but he was really tough on it. I did not know it was\nalready locked in.\nK : They had already been told and they are trying to announce it\nand we told them it was difficult and they are offering us fifteen\ndays later which does not solve the basic problem.\nH: All right, I will go back in with all of the great pleasures\nI have.\nK: Secondly, you know I want to appoint Nat Davis as the\nAssistant Secretary for Congressional Relations and you know\nhow highly I think of him. Timmons at first raised holy hell.\nHe wants his guy Stan Anderson who we did not appoint once before\nbecause he is too young. He says he is withdrawing his opposition\nbut he wants to register his complaint. He says Davis knows\nnothing about Congressional relations which is true. I want\na top flight man there. He is probably one of the top five\nForeign Service Officers. He was on every list we had for\nUnder Secretary. I want the ablest guy we can find who will\norganize it. I think it is a big sacrifice for Davis to accept\nit. He can hirer some political people. I have no other\nsuggestions.\nH : I will talk to Timmons about is.\nHe has not talked to me\nabout it.\nK : Could you get it overruled today SO we could announce it\ntomorrow. Two other appointments are based on that. If I\nwant to make a change in the Ex. Secretariat I want to move him\ninto Davis' job as Director General.\nH :\nO.K.\nK: It is not doing Davis a fovor but he is by far the best\nForeign Service Officer I could possible move into that job.\nThere is no political person. I don't think it is that hard to\nfind out what goes on in Congress if the man is willing to do\nthe work. Compare him to Marshall Wright for Christ's sake."
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