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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nBob Bowie/Kissinger\nafternoon\n5/13/71\nK: I heard from Mac that you are hear working with Mathias on the NATO THING\nB: No, I am hear for a meeting of the ODC. I stopped in to see him. I\nK: I assume we are working the same side of the street.\nB: I am trying tokeep the troops there.\nK: We will make no compromise on the Mansfield resolution. People are\nlooking for a formulation that we will accept -- fewer troops withdrawn and\n?\n?\n? but we will accept none. Making no changes except in conclusion\nwith Europeans or mutual force reductions with the Russians but we don't\nthink we should negotiate with the European who want us to remove troops.\nB: What he showed me didn't seem harmful.\nK: Onee we agree to any formulation we have to go with a resolution so\nwe have said no compromise accept a general endorsement of a resolution.\nB: I thought that was his resolution. There's an enourmous impatience with the\nWH. The mood is very bad. I would suggest looking at the Mansfield\nK: Mathias'?\nB: He was quoting others. I would acquaint myself with Mathias' and see if I\ncould live with it. It didn't look harmful at all in practical terms. Perhaps\nif I were making policy I would see if differently.\nK: Except we are getting impatient with people doing things that are not\nharmful and want to\nthem when they say they are not harmful.\nB: I only got into it because way bakc Mathias consulted me. I don't want to\nget into the middle.\nK: I won't mention you. I have a call into him. You won't get involved. I\nwant your judgment.\nB: If I could get Mathias thing and head off Mansfield I would consider I was in\ngood shape. Mathias endorses the decision to keep forces there. The only\npossible thing on ixx which there's any conceivable objection was the last line on\nfull consultation with Congress. If that's not read as a resolution there's no\nproblem."
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