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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nFlanigan/Kissinger\n9:22 am\n12/28/70\nK: I have come to the conclusion that I want to talk about that we should stop\nthe\ntextile negotiations. They xxxxx will let you see the tape of my conversation\nwith my fellow. klex I talked with Gehlin who talked with Sato and Miazawa.\nHe says Miazawa said -- to the chief of the editorial (staff) of the Post -- that\nwe are trying to get them to sign another document on the deck of the Missouri.\nI don't see what we will get out of it anymore. I know it's a problem for you.\nF: What I think can come out of it, if they find it preferable to legislature and\nSato can live with it.\nK: He will never admit that he cannot happily live with it.\nF: We can put it to him on the basis of what do you prefer? It's possible that\nwe can have an agreement that is an acceptable agreement to them and that\nactions under that agreement would be unilateral U.S. actions and not things\nthey agreed to do.\nK: So they are agreeing to unilateral action. It's a fact of life.\nF: No it's not. We don't have that power short of a trade bill SO we would have\nthe right to act without to trade legislation.\nK: So we will get a shellacking everytime we act.\nF: No because we have plenty of unused\nagainst them. It would be\nagainst them only worse. If you are not sure they will take retaliatary action\nunder the agreement then why ? ? ? ? ? ? It will weaken Sato's position.\nK:\nEither he is SO cracked that no agreement is worth anything or he is work\nis an objective bind and it's too dangerous.\nF: For his political future? I don't see why that kind of agreement where they\nK: I don't see how hecan give his word twice in one year and not show any sign\nof living up to it. We didn't start it.\nF: That's right. I would agree with you that we shouldn't hold his feet to\nthe fire for an agreement that is politically unacceptable to him.\nK: Have you the conversation?\nF: No.\nK: Tell Haig to give it to you. It's on a tape at my house. Maybe they haven't\nhad a chance to transcribe it yet. They are waiting for us to come up with"
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