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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nAmb. Wm. Sullivan\n3/12/71 11:00 a. m.\nS: I have a problem coming up and would like to get some guidance.\nThe House Foreign Affairs Committee, Zablocki subcommittee has meet-\nings on the POW s starting on March 23. I am hearing that some of the\nmembers have a tricky proposition which may be somewhat difficult for\nAdministration officials to handle. Let me explain it. They start from\nthe Statement that the President has left the impression from his last\npress conference that he will announce a troop withdrawal on April 15 or\nthereabouts which will set a reate of withdrawal which will\nexcept an unspecified residual force used as a bargaining weapon against\nthem for the prisoners. He also says he will do this at about the current\nrate of withdrawal; they say there have are 60, 000 from January 1 to May\n1 SO that's about 16,000.\nK: That's nonsense.\nS: Well they go through their multiplication and figure that 16, ,000\ninto 284,000 works to 19 months and that is December 1, 1972. They say\nthe President is in a sense saying the U.S. will withdraw all forces by\nIf that's the essence why don't we instruct Bruce to say we are willing to\nmake a withdrawal on that schedule if they will release the prisoners.\nThey are saying this falls within the time. The question is why don't we\nput forward in Paris a proposal that we will withdraw by December 1, 1972\nor some specific date if they will release the prisoners. This is the\nessence of what we are saying -- why don't we say it formally?\nK: We don't want to lock ourselves into a deadline for obvious reasons.\nThis proposition that we'll have troops there as long as the President wants\nis bound to be reversed.\nS: Yes, but this is the most tricky reversal. We can say they won't\naccept that, but they can say we won't know till we ask. This has started\nto brew in the press. Elizabeth Drew put this to the Secretary in this TV\nprogram.\nK: What happened to his press conference yesterday by the way?\nS: I don't know; it was cancelled. I don't know if it will be rescheduled.\nWhat do you think?\nK: Let me give a little thought to that. I can tell you the policy, but\nnot the answer to give. Let's both give it a little thought.\nS: It might come up in our peoples press briefings in the next few days.\nK: Yes, let me think of the best formulation. We certainly don't want\nthat now."
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