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    "ocrText": "Mr. Kissinger/Otis Chandler\n11:10 p.m., May 6, 1970\n- 3 -\nC:\nThat is good to hear. We have been for you and the President\nall along the line. I have been counselling our editorial writers not\nto go overboard.\nK:\nThat is, in fact, why I called you you have always been\nfriends to us. I would like to think we share a number of concerns.\nC:\nWe do. I suggest one thing. If the President could issue a\nstatement or go on national television to the kids -- because of his\nremark on April 20 about the militants burning which has been mis-\ninterpreted. It is becoming a catalyst to every campus.\nK:\nHe is having a press conference Friday night. He might open\nby saying something like that -- first of all, he had just received a\nletter from a Stanford professor whose 20 years of XXXXMX research\nnotes were burned up. That is what he had in mind. The listeners\ndidn't know that.\nC:\nI'm trying to be helpful. I know what that remark did.\nK:\nWhat is happening to my close friends in the academic\ncommunity? It's been a hectic week for everybody.\nC:\nIs there any way of slowing Kingman Brewster down? He\nis hot at the moment. I'm not trying to run him down because he\nis very bright.\nK:\nHe's a cheap grand-stander.\nC:\nHe's making a lot of calls around. He is convinced that\nthe middle students -- the silent majority who didn't participate --\nare now going to movex over to the extreme views of the militants.\nHe is trying to generate support.\nK:\nWhat these children want is somebody to stand for them.\nThey are not sure of themselves. I treat them compassionately\nwhen they come in -- we part friends. These things Kingman Brewster\nis doing are an abdication of his generation. They are looking for\nheros, not buddies.\nC:\nI thought maybe somebody could talk to him."
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