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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nPeter Flanigan\n11/3/70 9:45 a. m.\nF: Did you call your friend?\nK: No, I thought things were going pretty well.\nF: It looked that way from the press reports, but we still haven't\nheard. Sato met with the industry leaders on October 30 and urged CO-\noperation and hoped the textile issue would be solved by mid-November.\nK: That's about right.\nF: I just think sitting here and doing nothing is kind of silly.\nI\nam ready to call Yoshida and give him that message as suggested by you.\nK: Here we go. You have gone through this for six weeks and you\nare losing your cool. I have conducted this with masterful tact all this\ntime and great ability, to a stalemate.\nF: To a stalemate? To a non-starter you mean.\nK: Don't hurt my feelings like that.\nF: That thing of the President last night was a disaster.\nK:\nYou've got all these hotshots here\nF: How is it possible that a screening wouldn't show that?\nK: Well, I didn't see it. I objected to the theory of the thing. The\nPresident of the United States shouldn't respond to people who throw rocks\nat him. You thought it was technically bad too?\nF: Technically it was ghastly. He sounded awful and you could\nhardly hear him. The peaplex proper use of television is a very personal\nthing. This was made very clear by the comparison between the President\nat a rally with children on fathers' shoulders and children yawning and\nMuskie sitting in his living room in Maine. I think the only thing that saved\nus was that people are SO sick of the whole thing at this point that it didn't\nchange one vote.\nK: It didn't do any good. If anything we should have gone the other\nway. People don't want their President to start attacking their children."
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