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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President\nMr. Kissinger\n4:05 p. m. , October 30, 1969\nThe President had just walked through the West Basement and\nthought it was disgraceful to have that kind of waiting room. That\nis why the new arrangement is going to be very good, he said. K\nagreed that it was a very poor situation and said he was looking\nforward to the new set up.\nThe President said he had talked to Pederson as he walked through.\nPederson said he was very pleased with the speech. However, he\nmentioned one sentence which the President wanted K to call Pederson\nabout -- he wanted people to feel he followed through on their requests.\nK said he had discussed this w/Rogers, and thought it was all taken care of.\nK said after the meeting upstairs, he had gone over the speech with\nRogers who agreed that the way the speech has been edited now, the\nsentence on our feeling toward regimes is unnecessary. K said State\nhas raised this issue every day. The sentence was deleted which seemed\nto imply that we preferred dictatorships. The President interjected that\nhe does favor dictatorships.\nThe President asked K if it was his feeling now he does not want to\ndiscuss ceasefire. K said the President should discuss ceasefire in\nthe context of what we have already said. Some people don't know\nwhat a unilateral ceasefire means. If you say we can't ceasefire\nwhile they fire, it will be said that is what they say anyway. The\nPresident said he would throw the ceasefire in at the press conference,\nand K agreed that is the right place for it.\nThe President said he thought, as a result of the meeting today with\nMitchell, Laird and Rogers, we have the people on track. K said that\nwas a masterpiece -- he was astounded the way the President got\naround to the letter. It wasn't painful at all. The President asked\nwhether the fact that Kraft knew about that letter doesn't prove he has\nan affiliation with the other side; he wondered why Kraft wrote that.\nHe said he did think Rogers had a point with regard to the fact they\nwill pressure out the other letter. K said he could have it ready and\nRon could release it the next day. The President agreed we could\nsay we were giveing the North Vietnamese an opportunity to release\nit. K said if the President gets a few questions, he can say it is being\nreproduced and will be made available on Tuesday; the substance is\nin the speech anyway.\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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