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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nWayne Smith\n7/14/70 1:25 p. m. page 2\nK: I'll do my best, but I don't can't believe that you would make that\na sine qua non.\nS: No, it's not. The ataff was the key question.\nK: I think you ought to expand it. I think you should make some\npreliminary soundings, but be careful about picking people now because\nyou happen to agree with them. You may not feel that way once you get\naboard. The best people are those who make a cold-blooded analysis.\nWhat I need are analysts, not advocates. Everyone who comes to see\nme is an advocate. Once you have the job, you look at it from a\nPresidential prespective of what helps him to see the problems properly.\nS: No, Brehm and the staff are the two profix points I wanted settled.\nK: I was going to expand, but I thought I would hold up for the new\nman. But you should get going on that quickly.\nS: Let me think this through one more time. It's not an easy decision.\nK: No, my judgment is that it's the single most important job on my\nstaff and can make the greatest difference to the government on a permanent\nbasis. On the 16-hour day part, I don't care about that. If you can get your\nwork done in 8, that's fine. I don't know whether Larry works like that, except\nin peak periods.\nS: I'm very anxions to earn the kind of confidence that Larry has had.\nK: We've just begun to tap the possibilities of thos position. It can make\na 10-year difference to the government. In SALT we've already done it.\nAnd we are just beginning to scratch the sufface of the defense problems.\nS:\nI agree. What timing do you want from me on whether I will take it?\nK: I was under the misapprehension that you had already decided to. On\nthat basis I've turned down everybody else. Can you let me know by the end\nof this week?\nS: By the first of next week? I need to chat with my parents. I've got\nto convince my father--who's - a dyed in the wook Democrat--that this is in\nthe national interest. I want to make to clear I did not want to be leading\nanyone down the primrose path. I thought I had no decision to make. Now\nthat I know I do I will, but I have to have about 5 days."
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