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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nWalt Rostow\n1/13/70 p.m.\nR: Two things: first, you asked me for a piece of paper. I\nwill have it for you tomorrow if we see one another. Otherwise I'll bring\nit along.\nK: I don't know if the President (Johnson) will trust you - -\nI do, but I don't know if you will be there. No, I'm joking - - did you every\nfind out about the rumor that he doesn't like to be briefed by other than\nthe x cabinet people.\nR: That's absolute nonsense--he's - - delighted that you are coming.\nI'm not going to show this paper to him, it's totally personal.\nK: I won't mention it to him.\nR: I told him I might be doing it--but he shouldn't be brought in.\nK: I'll leave it up to you. No person has as much compassion for\na President as a fromer President. I don't mind his seeing it--but you suit\nyourself. I will take it as a Walt Rostow paper, not as a Presidentdial paper.\nBut I won't object if you want to show it to him.\nR: I'm coming to Washington Wednesday=\nK: Why don't you ride back with me?\nR: When are you going back?\nK: Thesday afternoon-- may not talk tox you much.\nR: No, I've got to work at my office Tuesday afternoon. I better\nkeep my reservation.\nK: Well, consider yourself invited.\nR: I'm supposed to be at the Foreign Scholarship Advisory Board\nmeeting, but if I can halp you\nK: I'll have somethings put together for you. You tell me if I'm\nleaving something out.\nR: I'm more and more convinced we better keep an eye on Laos.\nIf I were in their position with their prospects not too good and their side\nweakening\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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