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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nChalmers Robetrts\nMr. Kissinger\n6-12-69\n11:35 AM\nR asked what K thought the new front or whatever the provisional\ngovernment means. K said he thinks it is logical evolvement of their\nposition. R asked what it is designed to do and K said to strengthen\ntheir claim - it is consistent with our position as well as theirs\nunless they claim that provisional government should run elections.\nR said they are not saying that. K said you could imagine this\nlaying claim for\ncommissions which we have never rejected.\nR brought up possibility of deal to get coalition. K said he thought\nwhat R said the other day was sensible analysis. R asked what that was\nand K said their view of elections is certainly borne out. R said\nK seems to be leaving open then what he said about local control\nevolving some kind of deal in different areas. K said we do not want\nto nail ourselves to one position. R said we are trying to leave\nflexible and K said depends on how you define it, etc. R asked if\nXXIENSX Thieu's remarks when he got back home struck K in any way.\nK said he had someone with him and could not talk very freely\nbut our test would have to be Thieu's actions - he has many constituencies,\nK said what Thieu said about elections, for example, we can live with.\nR said Thieu is signed on for that but seems to be saying he\ngot us to sign on harder against any possibility of a coalition.\nK said he has not seen full text of what Thieu said. R said Rogers\nself-determination statement worried Thieu - he is concerned about\nsome kind of deal whee/re he would have to share power.\nR asked if Thieu was hard on coalition thing. K said we did not talk\nin those terms really - more about political evolution. R said he (Thieu)\nsaid when he got back that Nixon agreed not to push into direction of\ncoalition. K said that is what we have been saying all along. R said it\nall depends on words - there are all sorts of ways to look at it.\nR said he thinks we will sit flat in Paris for a while and asked if K\nagreed - K said WX for a little bit.\nR asked if Lodge was in town and K said he is in Beverly.\njm\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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