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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nThe President\n1/18/71 3:45 p. m.\nP: Couple of things. With regard to what we talked about today and\nZiegler's comment on this\nK: As it turned out he didn't comment.\nP: Okay. I want you to watch very closely now and over the next few\nmonths on this. Let's keep Ron out of it. Have him stonewall it; say no\ncomment. Have him turn it over to State. I11 be having about one press-\nconference per month and I11 handle it. Here's the point: no matter how\nwell we think it out, let some of the other guys make the hard plays once\nin a while.\nK: I already gave him your instructions on this at noon. He didn't say\nanything today.\nP: Good. And you're getting out the memo on the Bureau of the Budget?\nK: Absolutely, this afternoon.\nP: Just put this out as coming from you.\nK: Or maybe I could talk with Shultz and he could put it out.\nP: That's better. Say Laird raised it with me and the way we feel on\nthis is \"nothing without the President's approval.\" My guess is that Schlesinger\ndid this\nK: Or someone on his staff.\nP: No, he's loyal; it was probably someone on his staff. Yes, that's\nmuch the better way to do it. You could tell Shultz the President got taken on\nby Laird on this and from now on Shultz should insist on discipline. One thing,\nI was teed off at that article in Time or Life or something about State being\ndowngraded. What kind of thing is that to say?\nK: It was in the Times and what it is is a whole series of leaks from State\nthat are false. They said they had the idea for the Annual Review. But this we\ndid in the memo by which you established the system on January 20.\nP: And something about that DeGaulle thing I proposed. Of course I did it.\nK: You wrote it by hand!\nP: Do they think I'm going to just sit there and aarrot them?"
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