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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nRowland Evans\n5/18/71 11:35 a. m.\nE: keep hearing reports about you.\nK: Like what?\nE: That you behaved rather well at a dinner party I heard about.\nK: I must have been drunk. What dinner party?\nE: Can you talk to me strictly for background on the telephone.\nI am getting stuff together for a piece on the Cairo shake-up. It seems\nto me -- I just talked to someone who is in Egypt if ever there were a\ntime to give Sadat a boost now. I've just seen an item on the ticker\nfrom Moscow saying the Russians are worried about their status in\nCairo, that they want the Egyptians to restate their undying love and take\nthe oath all over again. Is there nothing we can do to get faster action\nfrom Tel Aviv or Jerusalem?\nK: If its true that Egypt is getting ready to move out of the Soviet\norbit, then the principal restraint on pressing Israel vis-a-vis Egypt\nwill disappear. There's no question that if\nSadat doesn't\nthen\nBut if the signs continue as they are\nand\n.\nwe won't wait six weeks.\nE: And you see nothing now militating against that happening?\nK: If it isn't happening, then the Soviets are unnecessarily nervous.\nIt\nmust be disquieting to have$5 billion worth of equipment in a country\nwhose ultimate direction you can't be sure of.\nE: Israel's answer is always \"don't be misled -- the Russians are\nso eager to get the Suez Canal opened\n11\nK: Impossible. You don't fire 10 cabinet members and arrest half of them\nas a stage play. Beside we are committed to opening the Canal anyway,\neven with Sabri as Vice President.\nE: I think we are coming to the moment of truth. The President has\nbeen SO good up to now. I just hope\nK: Don't worry about the President.\nE: The President told me the other night that he appreciated what I\nhad told you. I didn't know what he meant, but I said \"Mr. President, I\nmeant\nevery word of it. 11 But I think this is the one conspicuous area\nwhere the President has been better than good."
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