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    "ocrText": "Telcon\nNorman Cousins\n5/7/70; 6:10 pm\nC: How are you?\nK: It is not the most exhilirating period.\nC: I have been here in Washington going to various meetings and\nchurches where these sutdents are meeting. They are congregating\nand they are buying piles of guns and lots of ammunition. We could\nhave a wave of bloodshed and the tide could sweep from here in\nWashington right across the country. What matters is the not the\neffects now - the important thing is to soften it. The only one man\nwho can do it is the President. What he has to do immediately is\nto make a very comprehensive statement - an approach to peace in\ndynamic direct way, step by step beyond Vietnamization. He must\nsay man doesn't have to kill or be killed. Specific recommendations about\nhow to break the deadlock of Paris, about his mission.\nThat is your only chance. What has appeared the middle ground is now\nbeing destroyed. What has happened is that the misquotation about the\nbombing - the Kent State - has destroyed a large part of the middle\nground. The rest are arming - the middle ground has melted away.\nBetween now and Saturday the President has to show the end of\nCambodia, to pull this country together. If that doesn't happen this\ncould be terrible. The kids will be walking through the city with\nguns, shooting at government buildings, then we are in for it.\nK: Norman, I understand you. I will see what can be done. Let's\nyou and me stay in contact whatever may happen because this thing\nisn't going to have any victors.\nC: There is a small chance the crisis - the right words may be able to\npull it off. But they will have to be beautiful words, deep beautiful\nand poetic, and that is what makes great Presidents in history.\nK: If you want to put down some of the thoughts of what you think\nneeds to be done I will appreciate having it.\nC: Do you want me to give you a draft?\nK: I hold down little prospect that this is the time it will be done.\nms"
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