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    "ocrText": "TelCon\nHAK\nSec'y Laird\n5/7/70\n9:45 a. m.\nLaird: Did anything ever develop on the little game plan I sent over\non Bunker or Habib.\nHAK: We are going to have a meeting next week.\nLaird: I think it is important because this opportunity that presents\nitself is one we don't want to miss from the standpoint of our overall\nprogram. I am going to be here next week except Monday when I\nam going to Detroit. I will be gone until about 3:30 Monday afternoon.\nAnother thing, there are two points\nHAK: I have turned down that story about the decision making. Xxxx\nYou were unfortunately right.\nLaird: They came over here and they were giving people the impression\nthat this is a hard and tough decision for the President because he had\nto make it on his own without the support of his advisors. That does not\nhelp the President, it does not build him up, it tears him down.\nHAK: Some of these salesmen haven't any sense. That was terrible.\nLaird: It tears the President down.\nHAK: I understand. I killed it.\nLaird: The next point is that you know the President has really come\nover here and given the military the greatest license they have ever had\nand I am going to step in on a few things because if we let this thing\nget out of hand, they will use all American troops. We have got to keep\nthe pressure on them to use South Vietnamese troops. The next thing\nthey will be doing is requesting more Americans in South Vietnam.\nMcCain would like to put the Marines back in. We can't do that.\nHAK: I agree.\nLaird: They have the idea that they have carte blanche authority and I\nhave got to be a son-of-a-bitch to keep some pressure on them.\nHAK: There is no argument here. There is no question on principle\nin putting new troops into Vietnam. There is no question about it at all."
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