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    "ocrText": "In Telcon with the President, Nov. 1, 1969\n10 45 am\nPresident said I want you to prepare for my signature a personal letter\nto Rogers and Laird. I think I will say in my brief conversation with\nDobrynin I made it very clear that while we would proceed with talks\nand discussions on Middle East that progress on those talks would be\ngreatly affected by the Vietnam situation and that we have to realize\nthat Vietnam, as a fact of life, poisons our relations. With that\nletter in the file, I will write a letter to Rogers, Laird and you. I\nwill say I want this line dissented by everyone in the bureaucracy.\nI can't ha ve our State Department people sandbagging us.\nK said he would take care of it.\nP said with regard to Latin American speech, he spoke to Haldeman.\nI want XXXNX you, and Haldeman, within the next two days, to get\nany good statements by Latin American Presidents and want to get\nthem to Ziegler for release as \"White House was delighted to learn\nthat, etc. etc. That is the way to do it. I want the foreign reaction\nreflected here. Don't send them to me. Get them to Klein and Ziegler\nand to State and say get it to the press.\nK said I will have USIA start collecting them immediately.\nP said also I want everyone of our Ambassadors to report to me every\nreaction, particularly from Heads of Government or major newspapers\nand send it directly to me at the White House with a copy to State.\nSend the wire directly to me.\nP also said get Defense to get copies of this speech (Vietnam) in the\nhands of every soldier out there.\nmih\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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