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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nHightower/Kissinger\n1:55 pm\n2/17/70\nH: Thank you for including me.\nK: I called you about that. I don't remember if you were the one who thought\nwe had an excessively hard line against the Soviets\nH: I raised that.\nK: The tone that was conveyed was hard line. That's far from our intention.\nIf you read that part before the Era of Negotiation, you will see.\nH: Let me go one step further. The story I wrote last night is really\nrelated to this but it is not an editorial. It takes up missile balance. This\nis a real issue and relates to the ABM.\nK: That's perfectly true. The problem we are trying to get at with the\nSoviets is to convey to them we want a solution to the problems but not kxxxx\noverlook the problems that divide us. And that's a very delicate balance.\nH: I don't understand the inner meaning. I felt in reading it that thick\nyou wanted the public to understand. I found a general statement that while\nwe made some progress our relations with the Soviets are generally\nunsatisfactory.\nK: They are far from satisfactory.\nH: There are comments on the Middle East and other areas. Your reaction\nis that this is realistic\nK: We need to have negotiations and ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?\nH: The stories should be balanced that we\nK: If I didn't respect you, I wouldn't call you. But it seems (?) you are\na thoughtful and serious writer.\nH: I was stnuck by the comments made in that part of the report. I thought\nit was useful to talk it out and I thought your response was helpful. You\nsaid to keep the whole timing in mind. Another thing -- we got information\nthat all of you may be taking a trip to Vienna in April.\nK: There's no plan that I know of at all. Maybe the Secretary of State has that\nidea. I am not aware of any plans of his either. Certainly we have no plans\nfor going there in April."
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