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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nA. Johnson/Kissinger\n6:06 p.m.\n6/9/71\nK: Two things. Ted Eliot probably -- Haig called in the morning. I had breakfast\nwith Dobrynin and I promised him a helicopter ride over Washington if we got to an\nagreement.\nJ: I must say, I couldn't have been more surprised.\nK: So that was\nJ: He got his ride.\nK: I told him the next time kx I get him on an airplane to Baltima e.\nJ: I gave a couple of people a ride the other day in working outx summer camp for\nhis kids.\nK: He told me about the camp.\nJ: We went all out on this. Navy ran down 15 locations including military installagions\nand took his people riding around on Sat.\nK: He was pleased. I didn't say I knew about it. He said the y found a place in the\ncounctry. I have another backchannel from Kennedy. He told the Chinese we\ncouldn't do anything on Senkakos with Ching Kao. He then requested that the U.S.\nat the time of the signing state categorically that we are returning sovereignty to\nthe GO but still in dispute and should be settled by the a rties involved and the US\nwill do what it can to facilitate a settlement.\nJ: All right.\nK: If anything like that could be done.\nJ: The Secy. talked to Aichi. He hit Aichi hard on this. The way it's left is\nAichi has agreed they will talk with Chinese on this. He suggested we needed\nJapanese help on this. An hour ago I asked my boys to work on this to see what\nwe could say. What we can say is that our returning it to the Japanese changes\nnothing. This neither adds to or detracts from claims. We can say something along\nthose lines. We have them working on that. I am prepared to consider something.\nWe can say it in a note to the Chinese.\nK: If you could let me have something like that.\nJ: The reason I heard about this is I called Peterson. Where is Kennedy going and\ndoes he know the plan becuase I have a telegram from Taipei on a long statement when\nhe left which implied he was coming back. Another was a telegram from Tokyo asking"
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