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    "ocrText": "Telcon\nEhrlichman\n2/19/70; 3:30 p.m.\nK: I am supposed to call you about this McClintock thing.\nE: Has anybody had a chance to look at the State Department replies?\nK: John Lehman has looked at them and he considers them a pack of lies.\nE: Elliot brought it up at a meeting Harlow, Haldeman, he and I had.\nHe said, you can't blame McClintock, he got in between. He was getting\none set of instructions from your committee and other set from the\nSecretary. I said, well, look, the Secretary was represented on our\ncommittee by you SO it isn't as if you weren't a party to the committee's\ndeliberations. He said that was part of a situation he has to work with.\nLook, you are ruining a good man's career. I said, a good man would\nhave said, I have been put in an intolerable position, Mr. Secretary.\nElliot said, there's quite a bit to what you say.\nK: The basic thing is the Secretary undercut a White House committee.\nI have great sympathy for this sort of problem. This is what I put up\nwith three times a week. No White House order will ever stick.\nE: The President said to me, we never want to fight little battles.\nWe just want to fight big battles.\nK: You can't do it that way, because there will never be any big battles,\njust a lot of little ones.\nE: I think Elliot has given me the ammunition I need on this. We can\nput it off til Monday.\nK: I am engaged at this moment in a horrible uproar on this Presidential\nreport because they think we screwed them. They were going to feature\nthemselves. They thought we couldn't put out a report without their\nassistance SO now they have scrapped theirs. The Secretary is going to\ncome in here loaded for bear next week.\nE: Do you want to keep this for training stock?\nK: No, No. When it goes to the President I want to back you 100%. My\njudgment is the same as yours. But I don't want to negotiate with State.\nIf you take the hard line with State I will back you with the President."
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