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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nHAK/Secy Packard\n30Dec69: 9:20 a. m.\nPackard: Are you leaving today? I wanted to chat about Safeguard.\nWe have got things worked out here SO there are two courses we can\ngo. Wanted to get your advice which way the President wants to go.\nOne, is to take the next step with two additional sites going toward\nfull 12 deployment with some emphasis on the area defense capability.\nAlso going to include some money for R&D to upgrade Minuteman defense\nin case we need it. Involves $1-1/2 billion in authorization and about\n$900 million in expenditures. The other course would be to simply\ngo ahead with phase 1 but put R&D toward area defense.\nK: I am practically certain he wants the first course you mentioned.\nHe wants to get into phase 2 if only for bargaining effect. We had a\ntalk about that yesterday after Jerry Smith made his report. He\ndefinitely wants to do that. We were wondering we could start surveying\nsome additional sites just to show we are moving.\nP: We will do that. I think I have a pretty good interpretation of the\nconversation last week. If you are sure the President wants to go that\nway, I will go ahead.\nK: I am not sure which two sites he would pick I would guess\nWhiteman and the Northwest. P: It is perfectly\nK: I think he would prefer that to the National Command Authority.\nP: I think it would save us an argument. K: I am sure I speak for\nhim on this. P: I will have it set up that way. We have got to get it\nin the budget. I will get things moving ahead on that basis.\nK: Could you send over a piece of paper? P: Yes. K: I am sure I\nspeak for him on this because we have talked on the budget review SO\nwe will do two sites and preserve some other ones.\nP: The ultimate 12 sites SO we have the whole picture and going ahead\non the whole program.\nms\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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