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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President\n6/21/71 10:35 a.m. p. 2\nP: I pointed out then, look at the facts after the confrontation I had\nand after Hiss finally admitted he had done it. I was talking to a reporter,\nHe was emotional about it -- he said he still thought this\ninvestigation was wrong because it casted doubt on the Roosevelt foreign\npolicy. From that time on I knew people in Washington have a different\nmorality. I said to him 'you can't mean that. : And he said 'yes sir. I\nHis point was that Hiss had been at the UN and at Yalta, and he was right,\nand it did cast doubt. When you really smoke them out, they want to\nprove the war is wrong and they want to destroy us. On the first, you\ncan't fight them but on the second you wan.\nK: They've thrown down the gauntlet\nP: And in a way that's a good thing.\nK: And when we have told them that we are going through a delicate\nprocess. It's unforgiveable, what they are doing to the country,\nP: What they are trying to do -- they haven't done it yet. Well\nHenry we'll have an all-out offensive. We'll get you out saying a few things.\nWe'll start using the bakkground thing, not just in Britain but here.\nAnd I'll do it too. If they think Agnew was hard on them wait till the\nPresident starts.\nK: Exactly. And the press isn't all that popular right now. If we\njust give it a little time\ndon't object to giving documents to Congress,\nbut we must do it with great care. There are going to be lots of documents\ngoing to newspapers.\nP: Once they have been published I'd give them to them.\nK: I'd do it but with a bleeding heart and a reluctant attitude.\nP: Be sure you get that view to Ehrlichman.\nK: I have. Of course McGregor is the other way.\nP: Of course he has to fight that battle. You've gotta say this, he\nhas done a job on those votes Henry. Even better than Bryce did. What\nhe does is he says the President has something going, don't know what\nbut something. He brokers that something terrific.\nK: No, he's terrific.\nP: And Scali's the same on the other side."
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