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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nMr. Kissinger /The President\n7:10 p.m., March 25, 1971\nK:\nMr. President\nP:\nHello, Henry. Any news?\nK:\nWell, I had a talk with our friend and most of it was on Berlin and\ntechnical points. When we were through with that, two interesting\nthings. Dobrynin asked whether I had any message for Hanoi -\nthey are very ready to pass messages and he said any message I\nwant to pass, he is willing to pass. But I think this is a bad time\nand I told him, \"No, I don't have any. 11 But he kept coming back\nto it. They let me know through him that they still\nP:\nHanoi?\nK:\nYeah. He passed me that message in February too but I think it is\na bad time to respond.\nP:\nYou think they may really want to have a discussion?\nK:\nIt is absolutely inconceivable that Dobrynin would raise this on\nhis own. He was reading from his notes which he had on a little\nslip of paper. That's the third time he has come back to it. He\nmade an offhand comment in January that they are ready to but I\nsaid the reasons we had not ever gotten anywhere is that they had\nalways made speeches to us. He knew about the meetings and he\ncame back a month later and asked again and now this is the third\ntime. They raised less hell about the bombing than any other and\nhaven't gloated about their so-called victory.\nP:\nUh-huh.\nK:\nNot going next week is an excellent consideration.\nP:\nI am just not going to go.\nK:\nI have already told State.\nP:\nYeah.\nK:\nFirst when we talked about Vietnam, I said don't let your Allies\nconfuse you. We know that they are in trouble, you have to make\nklxex a big decision\nwe are not going to go one way or the other.\nFundamentally understands your direction."
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