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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nScotty Reston/Kissinger\n5:12 p. m.\n2/26/71\nR: I have been sitting here today trying to puzzle in my mind when you\nclaim executive privilege -- when you go public and when you don't.\nK: Personally? The Kalb thing?\nR: When you are on the record and when not.\nK: On the Kalb thing -- Let's take that first. I have never spoken on TV on\nsubstance or foreign policy and I had agreed to give a 10 minute account of\nwhat the report tries to cover. The one program that tried to cover substance\nand I was in the spot of SEXXXXXX seeming evasive on answering but I will\nnever repeat it.\nR: You thought you were tricked?\nK: No, I think they felt they had the privilege to ask me what was in the\nreport. I probably shouldn't have put myself in the position where ambiguity\ncould arise. I shouldn't have.\nR: When I heardyouthis mornigg I couldn't believe my ears.\nK: I shouldn't have been done by a Presidential assitant and it will never\nhappen again while I am here.\nR: I think there's confusion about this. I am interested in principle about\nthis. Ehrlichman is another case --Hewill go to the Hill and answer questions\nand brief Republican members of Congress but not submit to questions by\nme particularly. I can see ? ? ? ? ? in a staff that gets more and more\npowerful but SO long as it sticks with executive privilege I can't quarrel with\nit.\nK: The general rule I have applied and will continue to apply -- I will\ntalk about what my job entails and background of how something happens\nand what the report attempts to achieve but I cannot report ? ? ? ? ?\n.\nR: But for back ground you will.\nK: But I will try to stay within what I feel is a surrogate for the President\non that and not an independent force. Since the Presicent can see as many\nas\nhe wants.\nR: That's what I am trying to get straight. I think the WH is in trouble on\nthis. I don't know what -- the last 2-3 weeks are ghastly.\nK: We haven't done much briefing here in the last 2-3 weeks."
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