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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nMcGeo. Bundy/Kissinger\n11:41 a. m.\n3/2/71\nB: I had a long call from Reston this morning. You probably know what he\nis pestering about. Is Henry Kissinger the victim of troubled circumstances\nand why Fulbright is mad. You probably know it all.\nK: He has been after me on the issue of executive prinidiex privilege but\nmore that the Administration is lying to the public.\nB: He didn't try that with me. The problem is press and not officilas. He\nagreed to that. He pushed the discussion what I think the legitimate worry\nis that the only people who can explain American x foreign policy are thexfexx\ntwo guys who don't go to the Hill -- you and the President. There's no way\nof doing that if it's the night before Cambodia. He does perceive Fulbright\nas unreliable (?) confidant. Fulbright tells Reston that you don't tell him\nabout those meetings.\nK: Obviously you know the position of a Presidential assistant.\nB: That leads to my point. The substantive suggestion I offer is that it\nwould be very valuable if someone from the Dept. could go and stand on the\ndocument. It's the most substantive that's come out.\nK: The State of the World Report?\nB: If there were ways of getting Senators to say to the Secy. come and talk\nto us about this so the person that talks is the man responsible and not the\ntwo at the WH.\nK: Good suggestion.\nB: I think the legitimate worry they have is the guys that (who don't make\npolicy ?). This has been true since Dulles dies. The last 4 Presidents have\nwanted to be X their own spokesman on foreign affairs and the mild manners\nof Rogers and\nand the simplistic\nof Rusk. So they say,\nwhere the hell do I go?\nK: They should go to the Secy. of State.\nB: But kleeyy that will take some doing. No one can read that as the President\nand yourself. It's that kind of subtle document.\nK: You don't think a private meeting with the foregin relations committee woul\nhelp?\nB: It's edgy."
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