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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nAmb. Ellsworth/Kissinger\n2:33 p.m.\n3/17/71\nE: Thank you for taking my call.\nK: Listen, you sarcastic thing, when didn't I?\nE: But I appreciate it when you do. John Eisanhower was here this afternoon\nsaying that at the dinner table in Key Biscayne there was a discussion about my\nwanting to leave. Yesterday afternoon a friend said he had heard I would be\nthere in the middle of the summer and wanted to we me on private business.\nK: I talked with the President and made clear your necessities and preferences.\nHe said he did understand. He would like you to stay as long as you can but if\nyoux felt financial necessities to leave he would understand and get you back in\nduring the second term. I hope you understand everyone here thinks you have\ndone a superb job and would like you to stay indefinitely.\nE: I appreciate that. My immediate proplem is --\nK: We have not discussed it with anyone except the President.\nE: What I want to ask you to do is to tell Rogers and Laird about this so they\nget it from you and not rumor mill because obviously the rumor mill is moving.\nyou\nAfter\nxixexy have told them, let me know so I can write a letter.\nK: As long as I have you on the phone, Laird told me that there was a feeling\nI\nwas blocking Eagleburger. Will you assure Larry that it's not true and any-\ntime\nxxxxxxxxx wants to come back here or any where, I will help him?\nE: I don't know why Laird would say that. I haven't heard anything from Larry.\nAs soon as I get a reply from the President or if you know, let me know SO\nI can tell Brosio and my colleagues in advance.\nK: What sort of reply do you need? I will tell Rogers and you and he work out\nkawx who should be notified when.\nE: Will you also tell Laird?\nK: Certainly. I will tell them both this afternoon. Or let's leave it this way,\nthat I will call you when I have talked with them."
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