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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nNovak\n6/22/70 8:50 a. m.\nK: Sometimes when my paranoia reaches its peak I think there's a\nplot going on. I have never seen the Brooke letter--to say I have opposed\nit is an absurdity. For your own information, I wouldn't suffer any pain\nwith it. I have never seen the letter, known of it, expressed any opinion\nor been in any conflict with it. To say that I opposed it is an absurdity.\nThese things are easy to confirm you know.\nN: It was given to us on such an open and shut basis.\nK: I never xxxxxxxxxx tell anyone what I advise the President, that\nyou can be sure of. In this case I didn't advise him because I didn't know\nthat it existed. I never make public what I say to the President. I can't\nhave people making a checklist of where I stand.\nN: Well, I'm going to call the fellow who told me this.\nK: Whoever told you this is a liar. This isn't a case where my\nviews were ever solicited. I didn't know that the letter existed. And I\ndon't think the President does; if he does it came through political\nchannels. My thoughts couldn't have been misinterpreted because I didn't\nknow about it; I had no thoughts on it.\nN: Well, I got this from Brooke's office and they said this as a flat\nthing. I believe you; obviously they were giving me an incorrect statement.\nBut I talked with other White House aides--on the political side.\nK: It may at this moment be in my staff, but it has not reached the\nPresident yet. I was at a meeting of the senior staff members and none of\nthem knew anything about it either. This makes it look like there's a big\nfight going on and I am going to be overruled. That's not tune.\nXX\nAT: Well, I regret it and we should have checked you, but it was given\nas such a flat statement.\nK: You can assume that when people tell you what my position is they\ndon't know."
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