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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nSecretary Laird\n9:38 a. m. January 15, 1970\nSecretary Laird said he thought he had better return from his\ncurrent trip to talk with the President about this other budget cut.\nDOD has pressed hard to get another $300 million; he thinks it's\ngone too far national security-wise to ask for $200 million more.\nK asked if Laird were objecting to the $300 million or anything\nbeyond that. L repeated they had pushed hard to get the $300 million\nthey cut back DIA, NSA, etc., and now another $200 million cut is\nwanted in his agencies. K said L need not return; he would carry\nL's message and call him back only if he is needed.\nL said he doesn't think the impact nationally of the March announce-\nments is understood -- the international impact also, all coming at\none time. K told L he had been told to produce another $600 million.\nHe had sat with Packard on XiXXX Wednesday; they scratched and\ncame up with $300 million. Then K was told by the President he had\nto get an additional $200 million out of the agencies, NSA, CIA\nand DIA. L asked K if the President knew what DOD had done SO far.\nThey haven't hit CIA yet except to cut $12. 5 million out of them.\nL asked K if he should call the President on this. K said the President\nis at Camp David working on his State of the Union Message and has\nallocated only two hours each day for phone calls. K said he could\nnot even reach him now but would at the proper time pass L's message.\nK said further that he had told the President last night the national\nsecurity budget is different from HEW's budget for example; that\nwhen we become confinced our national security is in danger, the\nPresident will have to issue an order. K said he was not going to\nblackmail the various people, and asked L what he had cut from NSA.\nL said they had given them tough fiscal guidance and took another\nwhack of about 5 per cent (the first fiscal guidance had been in the\nneighborhood of 7 per cent). K asked if there were anything between\nthe $240 million and what L is already doing. L said Poseiden could\nbe slowed down you could go to the four-boat rate, but this doesn't\nsave as much as shown. L said he would have Dave Packard bring\na chart for his discussion with K. K said he and Packard would\nlook at that one area and would not go beyond it.\nIn response to K's query, L said he had gone on this trip to address\nthe Chamber of Commerce dinner in Pasadena on aerospace and\nnational security. On Friday, he meets with the Junior Chamber of\nCommerce. K told L not to come back -- he will see whether he\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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