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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nSymington/Kissinger\n3:55 pm\n2/26/70\n(This conversation may seem somewhat incoherent as the notetaker could\nbarely hear the Senator)\nS: They have held the Laotian hearings up for 4 months because they didn't\nwant anything about our planes operating on the Plains des Jars even though\nthe papers have been saying we are doing it. Now Goldwater says, and I\nfeel, that everybody knows we are doing it. We had our meeting and McCloskey\nblew the fact that we had it. I told you that.\nK: What meeting?\nS: The meeting with the President. I can't enter subcommittee --\nI do my best to cooperate. Now ? ? ? ? on their next trip to Europe\nand\nthe M. E. thexMxx. we can't tell anything about any nuclear weapons. I can\nsay I have been to a country near Russia that has pilots ? ? ? ?\n?\nK: What's the point?\nS: They won;t give us the information. But when I go out as a member of\nthe Armed Services Committee and get full information.\nsaid something\nabout conventional weapons. He said he couldn't talk about it. I went to\nDefense and State. In an executive session, if you can't talk about what's\ngoing on, we might as well resign. Fulbright isn't to fool with. I wrote\nRogers and said this should be out. The people know we are up north. People\nwrite us asking about their sons. The only people who know anything on\nLaos are Republicans. I told Stevenson that if they think they can make a\nfool of my, they are fooling with the wrong person. My only interest is to\nget the truth to the people.\nK: You are an honorable man.\nS: The President made a statement on Nov. 3 that the people won't support\na war they know nothing about. Now they are leaking information on the floor\nof the Senate.\nK: Let me work into this and get back to you.\nS: I haven't received any word from Rogers in three weeks. Everything is\nbeing quietly put out because we don't want to\nK: I will call you within a week."
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