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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President\n7:58 p. m. December 15, 1969\nThe President said K should call Bryce and congratulate him. K\nsaid Laird had told him about the ABM and he had called Bryce.\nP told K to hold Wednesday morning for breakfast with him, Harlow,\nand Mansfield. P had called Mansfield since he voted for ABM. He\ninvited him to breakfast he will discuss China since Mansfield is\nvery interested in that. He also told Mansfield we are having interesting\ntalks with the Romanians.\nP said on ABM we are getting votes from people we never expected.\nThis announcement helped tonight. Harlow told him these people are\nreading the polls. K said it is obvious they must be. These are\npeople who bitterly fought it four months ago. P said we have to keep\nthis negotiating position.\nK said, concerning the Leadership Meeting tomorrow, his recommendation\nis not to defend Safeguard. P said he was going to let that go. He said\nhe wanted K to give his pitch about what we have done. K wondered\nabout giving a combination briefing on SALT and the strategic threat.\nP said he was not sure the strategic threat is necessary now -- he would\nlike to talk about Okinawa, germ warfare, the Nixon Doctrine, etc.\nHe wants to give them something affirmative. He said he did not require\nany talking points from K.\nK said Laird said he was going to call the President. P said he had.\nK said L thought the statement was very strong, very effective. The\nPresident said he told Laird in his press conference on Tuesday to say\nthe President had asked him to go to Vietnam again in February (he\nhasn't been since last February) to give us a run-down on the threat.\nP had told L we have to lay the foundation in the event they step up\nthings, so we would be ready to move. P said L was going to play the\ngame, and P thought having him go out there in February is a good idea.\nK said he was thinking maybe we should send Haig and Lynn who has\nbeen doing the Vietnam studies Haig to review the military situation\nand Lynn to review the other. P said terrific -- have them in his office\ntomorrow or the next day, or maybe when he is in California. And K\nsaid we will send them off in January. When we have the momentum,\nwe have to keep it going; keep the momentum with us.\nK said he had talked with Frank Mankiewicz. Everyone is going crazy.\nThere is no possibility of their launching an attack. Mankiewicz had told\nK 'whether one likes the President or not, and M doesn't, the President\nis doing superbly -- he is moving out instead of in. There is nothing\nleft to argue about.\nlds\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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