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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nBryce Harlow/Mr. Kissinger\n2:40 p. m. , June 22, 1970\nH:\nThey adopted the Byrd Amendment this afternoon -- with\nabout 45 votes against it which further weakens the document. They\nare tired out and want to drop it. In a meeting today of the leaders\nand the most vigorous supporters of the President, they are demanding\nthat Griffin and Scott come to see the President this afternoon if\npossible to talk it out with him. They want to find out if he insists they\ncarry on through June 30. They could claim a victory with the Byrd\nAmendment, and even add on the Gulf of Tonkin. I am sending a note\nto this effect to the boss.\nK:\nI\nam not surprised you are mixing into my business. I saw\nyour generous remark that no one could get between the President\nand the Cabinet. What do you think I have been trying to do?\nH:\nI thought of your name but mentioned Mollenhoff instead.\nEverytime I say \"Mollenhoff\" I think Kissinger. What is your feeling\nabout this?\nK:\nI thought we overplayed things all along. I wouldn't have\nsuffered any pain if it had been settled earlier.\nH:\nIt doesn't bother you if they drop it?\nK:\nBeing SO close to the 30th, I'd just as soon they carry it\nbeyond the 30th but I don't want a rift with Griffin and Scott.\nH:\nThey are SO sick of it. They are now saying they are going\nto the top for a decision -- rather than deal with people like Harlow --\nif they have to go through more of this nonsense for a week or 10 days.\nThey made it clear and have given me their word they will carry it\noff -- and they will stick if the boss wants it.\nK:\nI would slightly prefer they hang in.\nH:\nI would, too, but on the other hand, they think it doesn't do\nany good politically to hold any more.\nK:\nIf we can make them hold, I would make them.\nlds"
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