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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nElliot Richardson\n9:25 a. m.\n12/2/69\nK said that Flanigan had told him about his conversation with Richardson\nand wanted to explain the situation. K said he really now has an order from\nthe President to get the thing done on the other hand, K was\nwilling\nto\nput a hold on it until he could get back to the President again on Sullivan.\nK indicated that the President just doesn't have any confidence in Sullivan.\nRichardson thought, that apart from the situation that he and K had discussed,\nR didn't think there was any reason to think that Sullivan has been promioting\nhis own views outside of channels anyway -- R didn't think Sullivan talks\noutside. K aksed if R meant outside the Government but said that Sullivan\nplays a very rough game inside the Government and the President is really\ngetting extremely restive. The President gives an order and 10 days later\nhe gets an appeal. There has been an unending set of power plays. They just\nhaven't stopped on ceasefire which no one is trying to keep from being proposed,\nwe just want to know the facts. Richardson asked what Mansfield thought.\nK said that was another play where they tried to use the Mansfield resolution\nand wanted\nout of that including ceasefire. Richardson said he\nunderstood the position and asked if K wanted him to follow it up with Rogers.\nK asked if it was R's judgment that we shouldn't do it.\nR said he wouldn't go that far -- he didn't have the same feel for it as K did.\nK wanted to tell R the sucession of efents. The President said twice over the\nweekend that he wanted it done. K said he talked again to thePresident\nyesterday and he asked again that it be done. The President then called in\nPeter Flanigan and asked him also to get it done. K said he would go to the\nPresident again tomorrow. R said for K not to do anything yet. R said he\ncould not go ahead on this without getting in touch with Rogers. K asked him\nto hold up for 24 hours -- K didn't think it should be done while Rogers was\ntraveling. R said he could quiet things down for the time being. K asked if\nR agreed that this was something we shouldnot do with Rogers in Europe\nand R agreed. R said he knew Rogers would ask to have it held up until\nhe could get back. R thought it would be difficult to refuse. K asked if there\nwas some way R could have a talk with Sullivan. R said he would do that and\nkeep the lid on. K asked R also to convey that the President is getting extremely\nrestive. Sullivan can 800 console himself that K is putting this up to the\nPresident and continue testing it. R said he would do it today. K asked him\nto keep it at that until Rogers gets back that would be the practical outcome\nanyway. Unless he heard otherwise, R would do that. K added -- understanding\nthat Sullivan will try to work within the spirit and not try these power plays all\nthe time. R said he would make it clear.\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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