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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President\n3/30/71 9:35 a. m. p. 2\nK: They have been ambivalent about it anyway.\nP: They are ambivalent about everything.\nK: That Consul in Dacca doesn't have the strongest nerves.\nP: Neither does Keating. They wiki are all in the middle of it;\nit's just like Biafra. The main thing to do is to keep cool and not do\nanything. There's nothing in it for us either way.\nK: It would infuriate the West Pakistanis; it wouldn't gain anything\nwith the East Pakistanis, who wouldn't know about it anyway and the Indians\nare not noted for their gratitude.\nP: We've got a lid on the Chingexe Chinese thing?\nK: Yes. I talked to Bill yesterday and we'll keep the lid on it\ntill you are back.\nP: I think we should get Bob Murphy and have him go and find out.\nK: He is going out on some business anyway, SO we have a good\ncover for him., and we don't have to get everyone churned up.\nP: Right. We've got to keep a lid on it. There's nothing in it for\nus to start slobbering over the Chinese and have them slap us in the face.\nIt would just dismay our friends again.\nK: Even the Japanese, and we'll infuriate the Koreans and dismay\nthe Germans. It would be a nice ploy that would get us through one\nyear; but next year we're in the same box again.\nP: Don't get too excited about the UN. We've got Rush there\nand he's a smart fellow and he's on our side. He's not in love with it.\nLet them flounder around. If they slapped us in the face there would\nbe a hell of an American reaction. The liberals and intellectuals would\nsay fine, but there veterans organizations and\nand I'd gin them up.\nThere are a lot of poeple right now who want the UN out of this country\nanxay. We don't realize how low it is.\nK: I'm sure it is and deservedly so.\nP: When have they helped us?\nK: And when you think of U Thant condemning us in Laos when he's\nbeen quiet for eight years about the North Vietnamese there."
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