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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nGerard Smith/Mr. Kissinger\n12:29 p.m., January 21, 1971\nK:\nJerry, how are you?\nS:\nAre you calling me?\nK:\nI'm returning your call. You wanted to come over about\nthe budget?\nS:\nI want to send a letter to the President, but I wanted to talk\nto you first. It's substantially broader than the budget question.\nK:\nIf you are living up to the traditions of the Cabinet, can I\nread it in the STAR today? What is it about?\nS:\nSafeguard, SALT, and the necessity for some high-level\nstatement on the negotiations. We are handicapped by the Soviet\nposition being known and ours not. I want to propose that the President\nsay something.\nK:\nCan it wait until the State of the World report the end of\nFebruary? I believe the President is going to cover it in that.\nS:\nI think it can wait until then. It will take a lot of work beforehand,\nand I don't want to staff it until I know for sure.\nK:\nI want to discuss with you two ideas the President has on\na personal basis. How about 6:00 tonight? I also want to discuss\nthe procedure for handling Safeguard at the NSC meeting. Do you\nthink we need another Verification meeting before that?\nS:\nNot if you can really schedule 1-1/2 hours at the NSC level.\nK:\nWhy don't I run over with you the issues to be presented at the\nNSC meeting -- a statement of the issues which is essentially what\nwe summed up at the last meeting. At another Verification meeting, we\ncan only state our perplexities.\nS:\nIf you could get DOD to state\nK:\nLet me also get a feel for what you have. See you at 6:00.\nlds"
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