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    "description": "This file contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Soviet Union. Materials in this file include newspaper articles, background papers on nuclear science and possible cooperative space exploration projects, a summary of a telephone conversation between President Kennedy and French President General Charles de Gaulle, an itinerary for President Kennedy's trip to Vienna, Austria, and copies of a joint statement issued by the President and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev concerning nuclear weapons, disarmament, and Germany following discussions in Vienna. The majority of this file consists of telegrams and memoranda to President Kennedy from Cabinet members and advisors regarding suggested strategies for discussing subjects such as nuclear weapons, disarmament, Berlin, and Laos with Premier Khrushchev.",
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    "ocrText": "ELEGRAM\nForeiga Service of the\n6\nUnited States of America\nINGOMING\nAMERICAN EMBASSY PARIS\n9\nCONPIDENTIAL\nACTION: SS 35\nClassification\nControl: 52\nINFO:\nEF\nRecd: June 1, 1961\nPF\n5:05 am\nFROM: WASHINGTON\nNO:\n5255, May 31, 10 pm\nNIACT\nNIACT SENT PARIS 5255 RPTD INFO PHNOM PENH 1094 VIENTIANE 1320\nGENEVA FECON 59\nPRESIDENTIAL VISIT\nFollowing is proposed reply from President to Sihanouk's letter\nMay 24. If President approves, suggest it might be prepared for\nPresident's signature and forwarded to Amconsul Nice for delivery\nto His Royal Highness Samdech Vreah Norodom Sihanouk Upayuvareach,\nChief of State of the Kingdom of Cambodia at Grasse:\nBegin Verbatim Text:\nQUOTE Your Royal Highness:\nI greatly appreciate Your Royal Highness letter of May 24 in which\nyou express with characteristie insight and clarity Your Royal High\nness concern over the tragic situation in Laos.\nPermit me at the outset to say that I have carefully studied not only\nYour Royal Highness constructive letter, but also your public state\nments and reports of your conversations with American representatives\nwhom you have graciously received. I am in agreement with what I\nunderstand to be your Royal Highness basic views regarding the true\nnature of the problems confronting Laos and the course we should try\nto follow in meeting them.\nAt issue is whether the sovereignty, integrity and independence of\nthis Kingdom, lying as it does on the frontiers of the communist\nworld, can be preserved without further bloodshed and without further\nthreat to the peace and stability of Southeast Asia and of the world.\nMuch depends on the courage, wisdom and perception of men of good\nill, which you yourself, Monseigneur, have so well exemplified\nFor our part, it is our objective to see Laos survive as an inde\npendent, neutral and peaceful state. Our hope and our every\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 12958, Sec. 3.5(b)\nendeavor\nDepartment of State Guidelines\nLAZE\nBy\nNARA, Date 5/16/97"
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