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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nSen. Miller/Kissinger\n10:30 a. m.\n3/27/71\nM: You indicated that you would - 00\nK: I would call today. All I can say is we would really prefer no statement like\nthat at all. You have to be your own judge. We think that what we should do\nat this stage is to use whatever possibility we have to try to get a settlement.\nNot to have too much pressure. We were asked by the House -- Ford - 00\nalong similiar lines and they decided not to put out any statement.\nM: The same idea?\nK: The same line.\nM: With return first and then think\nK: If there has to be one, it's better than most but don't misunderstand me.\nM: I was concerned about that this would take place on July 1 and query\nafter. We could havw it cleaned about over their\n.\nWhat it gets to is\nwhether Vietnamization could be accomplished in the time frame.\nK: Our concern is if other side interprets it as Iowan Republicans getting\nrestive and bring pressureon the President.\nM: Could read to bring pressure on them. If they want to get going on prisoner\nand not tokex other way around. They are saying pull them out and then we will\ndiscuss prisoners. This is saying it the other way.\nK: I understand your proposal.\nM: It would have much stronger ring of logic then what the Democratic causus\nis coming up with.\nK: But if they turn around and say do it and then we will take care of prisoners\nIt's closer to the Democrats.\nM: I would never do that. It would be put up or shut up and within a year we wil\ntake care of the other. It reverses the whole and pulls the teeth of the\nDemocratic proposal. I am thinking of the politics of the two.\nare\nindicating they are making hay on this. I want to say here's a better approach\nrather than waiting.\nfew\nK: Our judgement is that a lot of things might be broken loose in the next\nmonths if we can keep cool which is not an outstanding attribute of this\ncountry."
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