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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nJoseph Alsop\n12:15\np.\nm.\n11/4/69\nAlsop thought the speech was very good. K said he thought Alsop would\nbe happy with it. Some of the liberal commentators were incoherent\nwith rage. Today they are singing a different tune. K indicated that\nwex we were getting an unbelievable flood of mail. Hopkins says in his\n40 years in the White House, there hasn't been this much mail. It is\nSO huge, we don't know how to begin to deal with it. We received\n1,000 calls and Western Union can't handle it all. It is running about\n99-1 in favor and that is probably an understatement, it is more like\n500-1. Pleax One of the wires said that after hearing Harriman, they\nnow understand why we didn't get anywhere. Alsop asked what Kennedy\nand Mansfield's reaction has been. K said rather somber, but Mansfield\nwas on the Today show and he was not as critical. K hadn't heard whether\nKennedy has said anything or not. Alsop didn't think he would.\nAfter the speech, K said some people told the President he enraged the\ndemonstrators. Alsomthought it was remarkable. Alsop thought the\nPresident said it in a plain, simple, and in honest terms. K said he\nalways said the President wouldn't bug out.\nAlsop asked if K had thought about sending someone \"out there' (?) to\ndo the kind of job Alsop mentioned. K said they have sent Sir Robert\nThompson. Alsop thought that was an idiotic thing to do, since Thompson\nj ust doesn't understand. That would be like sending Harriman in.\nK said that it has been done and it is only for our information anyway.\nAlsop thought they should have sent Dean Moore. K said he would discuss\nthat latter with Alsop.\nAlsop had another personal problem he wanted to discuss with K but would\ntake it up later Alsop asked how K was fixed for breakfast in the\nmorning. K didn't think it would work but would call if something could\nbe worked out. In any event, he would get together real soon.\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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