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    "ocrText": "-3 - -\nP--Oh, that's one of the reasons he's fought. Heavens, if he\nwouldn't do that, well, he shouldn't be over there.\nJ--Uh, huh. Do you suppose he.. do you suppose he could get\nI said, well I assume you wouldn't be asked unless you\nwere given a free hand to have your assistants, etc. Isn't\nthat true?\nP--Yes. Are you thinking of the GONIFF (Thief)?\nJ--What?\nP--Are you thinking of the GONIFF?\nJ--The GONIFF?\nP--Yes, of the firm of CHAVER (Friend, Comrade), GONIFF (Thief)\nAND GOY (Gentile). (Referring to JUDGE SAMUEL ROSENMAN,\nOSCAR COX and an indesignated Gentile)\nJ--(Laughed) No, well, I was thinking of him, too.\nP--What?\nJ--What? I was thinking of that he might want GENE ROSTOW (Phon.),\nand\nP--Instead of the GONIFF.\nJ--Yes.\nP--Well, that would meet with great pleasure on the part of my\nchief.\nJ--Really?\nP--Because he has intense distaste for the GONIFF.\nJ--Really?\nP--Oh, yeah.\nJ--Oh, really.\nP--Uh, hum. The poor CHAVER, what's he going to do?\nJ--Say, what do you think of that?\nP--Well, I knew it was in the word. I thought you and I talked\nabout it.\nJ--Sure.\nP--I thought we talked about it some time ago.\nJ--Well, what is he going to do?\nP--Well, I.. so far as I can see he's doing little or nothing.\nJ--He isn'\nhe isn't the ghost, is he?\nP--Well, no, what he does is..is not.\non, not on verbal emin-\nations, but on written emanations he sometimes takes a\ndraft and tinkers with it a little bit, which is harmless\nand all right, which is not a full-time occupation.\nJ--Matter of fact\nP--May be a good form of psycho-therapy.\nJ--(Laughs) I was perfectly. I thought the letter was a little\nbit sickening, you know.\nP--Which one?\nJ--Oh, \"Aye, aye, Sir.\"\nP--Oh, yes. Do you think he said that himself? Do you think he\nsaw to that himself.\nJ--I don't know. It's awful, wasn't it?\nP--Who do you think wrote the other letter?"
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