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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nThe President\n3/14/69 7:10\nThe President thought the results of the press conference as far as\npublic opinion and Congressional response was good. He felt that we\nhad given our opponents a little trouble.\nHAK said the country likes a President who studies a problem carefully.\nThe people were talking in a vacuum. The President's aupporters had\nheld off because they didn't know what his position would be. HAK said\nhe talked to McNamara and McNamara said he would not oppose the\nPresident. He would not go out for him but the significant point was that\nhe would not oppose.\nThe President didn't think tix his opposition had a good case. HAK\nagreed. But said they were hoping to turn this thing into a Bay of Pigs\nor Vietnam War syndrome which would be almost impossible to do.\nThe Pres. had received calls from Florida and Calif. from people who's\njudgment he respected. The consensus was that the conference had made\na good impact. The people havent' been listening to the scientists. HAK\nsaid the people are basically for a strong national defense. They didn't\nunderstand that the Soviets had such a strong missile defense and now that\nthey know, they think we should too.\nThe President said he had talked to Rogers about this private talks thing.\nHAK said our policy was that as soon as we got Thuy to agree, we could\ngo ahead with private talks but not before. This hopefully would be done\nmanbe next Tuesday. We have to get Walsh to stop talking about four-\npower talks. Habib will be back on Monday and he has his orders.\nThe President thought that Bill Rogers had stepped up to Fulbright this\nmorning and was very satisfied. HAK agreed. HAK said we can't show\nany anxiety. Harriman got nowhere with this philosophy.\nSECOND PHONE CALL: HAK said he had a call from the British Amb.\nWilson thanked HAK for the advance statement. They will be giving a back-\nground to the press tomorrow and will strongly support the President.\nThe President was happy about this.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified."
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