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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nK said that we are finally getting Laird around. P added that Rogers is\nxix now sold on what we are doing and couldn't figure out why. He(R)\ndidn't raise ceasefire or other things. Part of the fact could be that\nwe have an option to the right. K said they are all terrified as to what\nyou will do on November 1. Enough of that has been picked up. K said\nhe had talked briefly with Mixt Mitchell but will be seening him at length\ntomorrow (Thursday). K said he was giving alot of thought if the P\ndecided not to go right on November 1 due to the elections in New Jersey:\nK added that the P could do a number of things that would give him\nanother month for decisions. The P said what he would like to do\nsomething on Nov. 1 anyway. K thought maybe a report to the people.\nThe President wanted to do more. K said he should make a move that\nwould indicate to the American people a greater interst in piece.\nThe P said rather than react to October 15, le it go and then announce\nthat we will ask for time on November 1 for major announcement.\nThe P said something about next summer? it wouldn't be too late to\ngo hard then. He would rather do it two months before elections or\nmaybe one month before. Will you ever gorget the Cuban Missile Crisis.\n(Missed conversation to answer phone)\nK said it might really worry them if you revealed, on November 1, every\nsecret contact we have had. That would be very unsisual and something\nwe might consider doing if we had prac tically given up on them.\nYou could mention my(K's) discussion with Xuan Thuy, the letter to Ho Chi\nMinh and say all of these I(the P) have done and the only thing that is left\nThe P said he would leave Rogers out of this completely. K said in five\ndays, the guys that ran on peace program\nwhat more would they want\nother than unilateral withdrawal. They would have to figure we had some-\nthing else in mind. The P said the real question is whether we have the\npeaceniks\nThe President said he couldn't believe it was really\nthat bad (referring to Oct. 15) and asked if K thought there was still 40%\nchance. K said yes, before Oct. 15 he didn't feel anything would happen.\nK said if the P lets all these protests go and the give them all the secret,\npublic and semi-secret contacts out, it will take some of the steam out of\nNovember 14. It will hurt Minor in New Jersey. It would mean to\nHanoi that you are ready to clobber them. The President glxx thought we\nmay get a break sometime bewween now and November 1 but K thought\nit may be as late as December 1. And, K added we have that SAC\nexercise next week.\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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