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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nChuck Bailey (Chi. Sun Times)\n10/16/70 10:30 a. m.\nK: I read a summary -- I didn't read the original but I read a\nsummary -- of your column in which you say that the Nixon/Kissinger\ngroup was crying wolf too much on Cuba. Let me say two things about\nit. First, what was said was an agreed upon inter-departmental state-\nment. It was a pure accident that I was the first up at the time the\nquestion was asked. If I hadn't said it at 2:30, State would have said it\nat 4:00. It was an agreed position; not a private initiative. Secondly,\nand I don't want you to write about this; this just for your information,\nwhen the facts are out, you will realize that what we did was a minimum\nreaction. If we could do as well on other things as we did on this\nB: I'11 agree on that. The Russians went all the way on this, didn1;t\nthey?\nK: If we had let the thing go, we might have gotten into a real con-\nfrontation two months from now.\nB: But did you have to make it public?\nK: Yes, this made it easier for them to say there was nothing there.\nWe said \"If it develops into something.\n11\nB: And you gotikx it anyway. I think it was good.\nK: I don't want to go into what was done privately. But this was done\nwith minimum humiliation for the Soviets.\nB: It just looked like part of a pattern, heating up the political atmos-\nphere without much benefit to the international one.\nK: We felt it was important that the Soviets realize that they were\ngetting to the edge of what might lead to a reassessment of policy for us.\nB: This friend of mine said that there were understandings between\nWashington and Moscow which underly will of what has been going on.\nK: That's not true. I wish it were. There is nothing we would\nrather have than an understanding with the Russians. Anyone who's\nbeen through the last 25 years realizes there are no victories in con-\nfrontation. We are following a policy of trying to come to basic under-\nstandings with them. If we don't, sooner or later someone is going to\ntry to face someone down."
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