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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nThe President/Kissinger\n2:20 pm\n1/16/70\nPresident: I felt that my intuition was right. Rogers speech did not\nget much play. It wasn't even on the first page of the Times or\nPost. Where did he make it?\nK: Atx State before a group of correspondents. He had wanted you to\nspeak originally. Generally the Times would print the text.\nPresident: I wonder why they did not publish.\nK: I don't know. It was public and on the record.\nPresident: Perhaps they didn't think there was enough new.\nK: We put out that correction today. Your instinct was correct.\nPresident: Well, in any event, we will just have to ride it through.\nK: My concern was the impact on Hanoi but that was handled.\nPresident: They are just trying to hard line things.\nK: They will do that until shortly before they yield, if they do. I don't\nsee how they can ignore the Sino-Soviet development. Three months\nago this would have been front page.\nPresident: You mean about the Chinese?\nK: No, irreversibility\nPresident: yest, of course\nK: The sister of one of my staff -- he's alright -- is very active in the\nmoratorium. She s days they are getting out of VN because the President\nis doing what he can.\nPresident: Going into environment?\nK: Yes, but you are ahead of them on that.\nPresident: Its very curious. None of them were giving a thing in VN.\nThey are lashing out at the system. I think the problem has been solved.\nK: It's the emptiness of modern life. It's a middle class existence WNNX\nwithout a purpose. They like to think they are tough cynics. They are\nagainst parents and teachers who have pulled everything apart and cannot\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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