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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nSecretary Rogers\n4/17/70 p.m.\nK: I talked to Mel about this paper and he's taking out the SALT\nreferences. At least he tells me he is. And he sent something else\nover I've just skimmed. It's less violent than the preceding draft.\nR: I don't see why he shouldn't put the facts in; let the facts\nspeak for themselves. But it doesn't help to say what we are suspicious\nof, that we think they are developing a first strike capability. It just\ngets their hackles up. It's not productive. Have you talked to the P about\n?\nK: He's been SO wripped up with the astronaut thing. I didn't have\na chance to tell him. You are giving a talk tomarrow on SALT?\nR: It S at a Cronell meeting. There will be something on SALT and\nsomething on Southeast Asia. The only question I have is whether we should\ndo something on the Malik statement. I got a call from Mansfield and Aiken.\nThey thought we should have some positive response. The President might\npoint out that we are willing to enter negotiations on any subject. I could\nsay something about we've asked Yost to pursue with Malik what he has in\nmind.\nK: That's almost what the President means to say minus the Amb.\nYost part. Say we are ready to explore, but you want to say who's doing\nthe exploring. The President is thinking of saying something like that.\nR: This won't pre-empt him. It probably won't be noticed. This\nis\nalong the President's guidelines in not saying a lot about SALT. I will\ncomments about what Breshnev said and they say we are serious.\nK: That's a good things to say.\nR: I've been trying to get language from the Pentagon to support them\non ABMs.\nK: Laird has been calling every half hour.\nR: He may not have SO much trouble. Axdke Aiken and Mansfield\nXXE\nwere\nin a great frame of mind this morning. In Cambodia I'm going to say we have\nno present plans to use Americans there.\nK: That is correct. We can't rush out to XXXX embrace the Malik thing,\nbut they couldn't have said it without Hanoi's knowledge. I think it quite a\npositive thing."
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