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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President/Kissinger\n5-4-70\n8:20 p.m.\n- 2 -\nP: There are periods when they need us and we need them. In the meantime,\nwe have got to get this\noff of our platter in a way where we show some\ncredibility.\nK: We have that.\nP: We go on our way with Vietnamization. I think that's fine. That's a good\ngame plan. Have Haldeman check with Mitchell on the student thing. They are\nfinding it difficult to get the strike mobilized.\nK: Have you seen the front page of the Star? Favorable. Even Brinkley had\npictures of caches.\nP: We don't want to overplay it. When you have the cards, play poker hand\nsoftly. It will accomplish the purpose. Time will tell.\nK: Did get 121 tons of rice. Altogether 800, 000 lbs. of rice.\nP: One million is a good figure.\nK: All TV reports on that part of it are quite favorable. I haven't seen on TV\nand in the press what happened at Kent State.\nP: They'd play it as an anti-war, anti-Cambodian action wouldn't they?\nK: In the Star they didn't.\nP: They will play it that way. Our people will have to have the guts to see\nit through. So be it! This is not the way policy is to be made.\nK: Capturing vast amounts of equipment.\nP: The sophisticated ones will point out the amounts are not vast.\nIn Fish Hook we have another couple of weeks. Parrot's Beak will pick up\nmore than Fish Hook.\nK: I think they are at them now. They have made a pincer movement. I think\nthey will get prisoners there. As Haig said, it won't be decisive.\nP: We were giving them the best we had under difficult circumstances. Thank\nGod we had bombing strikes too. I think they will cool after several days.\nTomorrow we will say there is no change in policy in this Administration. If\nanybody wants to question logistics around that area"
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