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    "ocrText": "this may the end of\nThe President/Mr. Kissinger (at home)\na previous tape\nFebruary\njlj\nTypect Feb. 7,1971\nK: Enthusiasm. I -\nP: You told him all the hazards and everything.\nK: I told him all the hazards and I painted it - I said look we are putting\nour chips on two South Vietnamese divisions, we don't know whether .\nhow good they will be, they have never had a really rough opposition,\nalthough we think they are the best divisions they've got. He said\nwell if they can't do it it's better to find it out now. And then I said when\nI was all through, I said, now the first thing before I ask you to do something\nis to find out what you think of it. And he said are you insulting me. This\nis tremendous. The courage of this President, he said. He was lyrical\nand he said he is going right up to the press gallery on Monday morning.\nWe can write the speech for him if we want to. Give him talking point S.\nHe'll line up others. He gave me the names of some democrats. He\nsaid it would be better if MacGregor approached them but if our judgment\nwas the somebody else - that he would appracch them he'll do it.\nP: Well, good, good.\nK: And he couldn't have been more enthusiastic.\nP: Good. I suppose the things that appealed to him were the fact that\nthere were no American ground forces but he didn't bother him that we\nmight have to use some air power.\nK: I told him that even there might be some troop lift. That doesn't\nboth him.\nP: That's good.\nK: Of course, actually, if the resistance is light we might never have to\ngo to the troop lift.\nR: XXXXXXXX6XX I know.\nK: For example, in the Chup operation we haven't used it yet.\nP: That's still going well. Well, of course, they have only been there\ntwo days but\nK: But they are already - now they have had some resistance but they've\ndone well. They are playing it very low in order not to make Lon Nol's\nlife tough.\nP: Good."
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