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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nProfessor Shelling\n2:35 p. m.\n9/17/69\nK explained that a group was being organized on foreign aid to take a\nnew look at the aid program, not just to find a justification to keeping\nit going, but to ask why we are doing it and what we should be doing\nPeterson from the Bank of American will be chairman.\nWe need a Staff Director for it. I know it hasn't been your field\nrecently but I thought if you were willing to act as Staff Director it\nwould be good. It would befor the next five months. You would like\nPeterson and would have full Presidential support. We want the sort\nof reappraisal we haven't done since the Marshall Plan. Think about\nit for 24 hours.\nShelling said he didn't think it would work. He was terribly committed\nat Harvard this year. He has also taken on something for CED. Xxxaxd\nK thought the CED\ncould wait for five months but Shelling didn't agree completely. He\nbroke his collar bone and waan't in a very good mood.\nThe reason K was SO attracted by Shelling was because he would like\na first class mind and Shelling has demonstrated the ability to take\nfresh looks a t things. There is nothing that can be done on the Defense\nBudget on this year's decisions. SO he could do that next year.\nShelling was not personally thrilled on working on foreign aid program.\nK said we could get the program if someone tells us what it ought to be.\nThis all started when the President listened to a briefing. There is no\npoint in it any more that is relevant to our period. When the total\npercentage of GNP devoted to foreign aid is not persuasive. K saw no\nobligation to spend a sertain portion of GNP unless someone tells us\nwhy. Shelling said he would think about it but he still didn't think it\nwoudd work.\nK asked about a paper Shelling was going to do on arms control. Shelling\nsaid he came in one day when the President was preparing for a TV\nannouncement and talked to Larry and Sonnenfeldt. He never could get\nback. K asked him to remember that he was always interested in his\nthinking.\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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