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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nTo repeat, all of this adda up to \"overwhelming\"\n0.\nWe already kow from all over the world that the Aupact has been musually\ngreat, and in favor of Russia -- and no comfort should be derived from the\nfact that it has shoved Lictle Rock off the front pagas of the world.\nst\nIn this country, as I said, we seem to be doing a plow take. I think that\nJim Hagerty's first statement, that the launching of the Soviet satellite\ndid not come as a suzprise and that the nevar thought of our program as\none which was in a rage with the Soviets; ours is geazed to the International\nGeophysical Year and is proceeding satisfactorily in accordance with its\nscientific objectives\", was good in fact the best that could be said\nundex the circumstances. However, 1 think that Admiral Besnett's statement,\n\"a bunic of fron almost anybody could launch\" $ was appalling, and I hope you\nwill immediately get the U.S. satellite chiefs, civilian and military, together\nto give them a fow do's and don't's on their public reactions.\nI should add that the successful impact of the Seviet orchestration ia\nconsiderably beighteadd by the U.S. backdrop in front of which the Russians\nare playing Litcle Rock, two unsuccessful Atias eleventh-hour\nDetense Department euts and stretchouts by daparting Secretary Wilson, non-\nresolution of the whole U.S. missiles program and consequent public intez-\nService bickerings atc.\nYeu badly need a lictle U.S. orchestration right now, and unfortunately you\nhava very lictle to with at the ao little that most of the\nhave to be negative rathor than positive.\nalor instance, although you will doubcleas went to spaed up our own satellite pro-\ngram an nuch as pessible, it not be apeeded up in such a way that it looks\nlike a crasia progeam. If we aza indeed geared to the 3GY and have a schedule,\nthe Amportant thing is to stick co the schedule but make auxe that when our\nsetallite goes uns it goos all the way - and if not bigger thea the Russians'\nlek &t be better.\nFor instance, you would not enly &measurably help Neil Melliroy but the whole\nU.S. cause if, on the first day that Mcklzoy is in office, you were to summon\nthe Joint Chiefs and the aivilias Service Secretaries to a meeting in your\nerfice with HeElroy, and lay dowa the law on inter-Service behavior for the\ncoming months. This is no time for fooling, and on both Defense Department\neuts and the missiles program the Ministration must speak soon and vith\none voice.\nTor instance, over the veekend X read a mystery story, the international\nintrigue type. At que point the Central European Mastex Mind, explaining\nto the simple Brizisher who has atuabled Anto the middle of \"the situation\",\nsayas \"Your phrase *psychological is all wrong. You don't really\ntabe paychology, and from what I have been able to observe you will go to any\nlengchs (Munich, plus) co avoid warfaze. Therefore the only vay in which you\ncam be effective is for you to understand and help us in that wa axa trying\nco do. And the name for that is The Soviet appearance of"
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