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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nThe President\n12:30 p. m.\n11/25/69\nThe President wanted to know how the press briefing went. K thought it went\nwell. They were extremely interested and asked alot of technical questions.\nThe 2010 people had really studied it. Saville Davis told K that what the\nPresident had down was really historic. K indicated that Mary McGrory asked\nwhy this sudden interest in peace things. K told her this was started in March\nin line with the President's general approach. K also told here that we would\nhave made this decision no matter what happened in the world. It has been\nschedule for 4 months. The President stated that that was believable. He\nasked K if he was able to get across the point on deterrent and K said he had.\nK said they heckled him a bit on the difference between tear gas and\nincapacitating agents. The President said they don't want tear gas, they just\nwant the mobs to runloose. K added that with tear gas, at least you can leave\nthe area.\nK indicated that he had just read the memcon with the Japanese and thought\nthe President really put it to him. K thought he was tough on the textiles.\nK told the President that he had shown it to Alex Johnson. The President\nthought that was important that State do see just as much of this aspossible\nSO they can see how much the President really gets into. K said that the\nhad talked to Stans and will have a meeting with him and Johnson tomorrow\nso they can get a program going SO State will ask for more than they have\nalready settled for SO Sato can offer compromise. The President noticed thst\nthe New York Times played the NPT on the front page and they will have to do\nthe same on thiw one. K said there was no question it was historical. The\nPresident thought that was something about Mary McGrory saying how did we\nthink this up. The President said K should have asked her why Kennedy and\nJohnson hadn't done this. Everyone has told the President, he said, that\nthe Okinawa thing wouldn't have been possible with any other President. K\nreminded the President that State said there would be trouble with Congress,\nand K told them the President could handle it. The President thought something\nshould be put into a column very soon. K said alot of things have come together\nand he thought he might have a press backgrounder. K indicated that Chuck\nBailey has asked to see him. The President suggested K see them before the\nend of the week and added Semple. The President said he wanted to ride on\nthe whol basiness of historical issues. He said the Asian policies couldn't\nhave been sold without him and said these were Presidential leadership issues\nof the highest order. The President added that the draft wouldn't have been\nsold without him. Both Aber and Rivers told the President they have never\nworked SO hard for something they didn't believe in and only because the\nPresident asked them to.\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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