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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nSec. Rogers\n11/04/69\n9:20 a. m.\nK said he didn't have anything special to say, just wanted to check with\nR--we're swamped with cables. Don't know what that means--R said it\ncan't be bad-. said the cables were running about one thousand to one\nfavorable, and there are about 10 thousand in already. They are stack-\ned at Western Union all over the country; people were driving the West-\nern Union president crazy last night because they couldn't get the oper-\nators. R said we should have a group of people counting them, SO we\ncan have some kind of count. K said we'll get that later. The only\ncables we've gotten SO far by some fluke got in directly; most are\nstill in offices in each region for some reason, and will be sent in to-\ngether. K said we got one telegram with twenty thousand signatures\nfrom Colorado alone. R said that doesn't count so much, because it\nmust have been prepared in advance. K said that's right; it came in\nduring the afternoon, so it doesn't count. But Hopkins says he's\nnever seen anything like it. The switchboard reported fifteen hundred\nphone calls by midnight.\nK said it was very successful. Of course the Times and Post are hav-\ning conniptions. R said he thought the Post wasn't SO bad. K said the\nPost was fair, but Reston was outrageous. K said he told Kraft the\nmilitary is less influential now than in the McNamara regime. R said\nXNXX true.\nK said the group he talked to is the group he had Thursday. And we were\nall agreed ot was weighted toward the military people. R said\nhe'd say. People want unilateral cease alternatives.\nR said most of the reaction was subjective. R said people want unilateral\ncease-fiee; no one thinks of the alternatives. R said he was going to say\nat the hearings, what do they propose? K said they say unilateral cease-\nfire as if it would wxxxxx work. R said right, the enemy rejected our cease-\nfire. If the President had used kix it they would have said phoney and fake.\nTje P said the choice is between pull-out and what we're doing. R thinks\nout position is logically totally defenseable.\nK said we've gone more than the extra mile. If we ever did to Hanoi what\nHanoi has done to us, people would have fits. R asked if K had listened to\nHarriman. R said at the Family of Man dinner, Harriman was supposed\nto speak for two minutes; he gave himself a 5-minute introduction, and then\ntalke d for 15 more minutes. He said some nice things about Rogers, but\nhis talk was very confused. Nobody knew what he said. When R got up to\nspeak, he thanked Harriman for the nice introduction and his support. R\nsaid he has no effect any more. But Reston, Gore, Javitts, even Fulbright\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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