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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nFrank Shakespeare\n1/5/71 12:30 p. m.\nS: Before I left I wanted to get your counsel about anything to say or\nnot to say. I am leaving tonight and staying in Athens. I'll be having dinner\nwith Tasca and with his country team tomorrow night. Thursday morning I\nam calling on the Prime Minister. And that's all for Greece. Anything\nspecial I should say?\nK: You know our general pesition on that. What you should say to\nTasca is that whatever we have said before is reaffirmed.\nS:\nOkay. I'11 be with teh Sixth Fleet for two days but that isn't of\nany consequence. I'm stopping at three places in Saudi Arabia: Jidda,\nRiad (?) and the headquarters of Aramco. In Jidda I'm seeing the Henry\nKissinger, if you will, of Saudi Arabia. Then in Riad I'm meeting with King\nFaisal. I asked if this would just be a pro forma meeting and they said no,\nthe King really liked to talk with people and get their ideas. Then I meet\nwith Aramco\nK: I would be very interested to get the King's reaction on the Middle\nEast leaving aside the Arab-Israeli issue. I can't tell you a lot about that\nexcept to say they will have to trade legitimacy for territory: they can't have\nboth. The maximum amount of peace they can meet will help get back the\n'67 borders.\nS: My thought was to draw him out on his attitude about any thought\nregarding the Persian Gulf.\nK: And also how he visualizes the evolution in that area and the Soviet\nrole in the Indian Ocean and the recovery of the radical states apart from\nthe Arab-Israeli dispute.\nS: Okay. At Aramco there will be a briefing by the Aramco officials.\nK: I believe in the invincible stupidity of the American businessman.\nS: That's because you are a Harvard snob but I won't argue.\nK: No, I have never seen a group with such an idiotic concept of\nour foreign policy and of their own interests. When I read in the Communist\npress\namazing.\nS: I happen to agree with you. Okay, then I go to two shiekdoms:\nAbudabi (?) and\nand I meet with the two rulers. I will be\ninterested in their thoughts on the federation."
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