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    "ocrText": "Laird/Kissinger\n12:05 pm\n4/18/70\nK: I will not tolerate that. I know what the President has in mind. You\nheard him at the Congressional briefing.\nI\nL: On the bombing thing the will send you a memo expressing my concern.\nK: Will you? I will only send it to the President.\nL: My problem -- If I have to keep within ordiancesupplementals, I will\nhave to make terrific changes. It goes into '71. This goes into our budget.\nK: Hedidn't focus on it. He looked at the gxfxx figures in respect to his\nstatement.\nL: When the rainy weather came I thought I could save $100 million.\nK: Why don't we get together on this when I come back from Calit.\nL: I have to talk to Mayo and I don't think we can get a supplemental becuase\nI will have to tell him why and we are flying very little in SVN.\nK: He is concerned with air support to VN forces.\nL: I could increase that. We are xjx flying little of that. Very few strikes\nare in support of the VN. Less than 10 percent. I just as soon cut back\nin the rainy season and give them support. We have not refused any of these\nK: What bothers you then.\nL: I have to maintain the same rate on the Ho Chi Minh trail and in Laos\nwhen during the rainy season it won't be necessary. I can't put stuff in\nVN when we don't have anything.\nK: I will talkx to the President on the way back from the West Coast.\nL: I will keep the greatest amount of pressure on but on the same number\nof sorties during the rainy season so I can save $100 million\nK: ON the Ho Chi Minh trail I will talk to the President. This order has\nto stand until we have another word about it SO you have to think of carrying\nit\nout. Wx Send a memo on what you propose to do. If I gextx could have that\nwith me. Rough order of magnitude.\nL: Porblem of 71 budget\nthousand sorties. That's a cut down.\nCut down the sorties from the 70 budget. Tactical sorties from 14,000 to\n10,000. The gxix big thing is ordinance. Elfothe sorties costs $40, 000 for\nammunition."
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