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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nWilliam Buckley\n12/12/69 1:25 p.m.\nB said hello my learned friend, how's the empire? K said what do you\nmean writing me such enigmatic letters--what am I doing surreptitious-\nly? B said what did I write to you? K said you sent me this letter saying\nhold on a second, I'll get it. [K read first part of letter] K said\nyou didn't tell me what the direction was. Bsaid I must have been talking\nabout a clip that didn't get to you. Bsaid he would sent it.\nK\nsaid how are you. B said fine; I'm just back from where you sent me.\nK said when can you get down; I want to talk to you. B said not until\nearly January, but if it is urgent I can figure a way to get down sooner.\nK said I want your impressions. B said as usual I think I'v just discover-\ned the key to the mysteries of the universe, and I want to tell Henry Kis-\nsinger first. K said are you going to be in New York. B said yes, the\ncommission is meeting Tuesday. Then on Friday I take off for the Carib-\nbean. B said briefly it seems what needs to be ventilated is 'what are\nthe rights that innure to Vietnam in the process of Vietnamization? as\nregards the political thing. Suppose they say, look we want to block\nHanoi: doesn't it then become their responsibility, and their right, rather\nthan our own--rather than impose on them our inhibitions. K said let's\ntalk about it when you come.\nB said I have seen angry people in my life, but never as angtry as the\nForeign Minister of Theiland. K said at us? B said yes, - not at my\nfavorite professor. K said said can you send that down as a special\nnote? B said he would send it to K on Monday morning.\nK said if I come to New York before you leave I will let you know and\nwe can spend an hour. B said I am sorry to send you enigmatic notes.\nK said to be melodramatic and surreptitious at the same time xx is quite\nan achievement.\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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