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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nMoorer/Kissinger\n11:15 a. m.\n9/2/71\nM: Question here. Getting ready for X DPRC Wed. I know you discussed\nwith Laird at breakfast. We are charging around on a decrement -- future\ncuts.\nK: Is that what Laird said I said?\nM: In order for you to go to President you have to assure him you examined\nadditional cuts below the par.\nK: We have 3 recommendations from the Secy.\none from every consumer\nranging from 76-83. I was at a budget meeting and ? ? ? ? ? . I said we\ncan't do that. Statement from services and see what it comes out as. He\ngave three weeks. Therefore, if you are in a position to come up with a package\nand get thex it costed out we could stick\nsend\nwhat you are after. But you\nwill Wank him up the wall if you say one aircraft carrier and so forth. He-will\nsay he wants more then we can afford but if you do it with the dax budget, it will\ncut it down. My interest is to get your pxxxxxx people to do it in terms of\nmission. Best guarantee for national defense budget.\nM: xRkey That clears up points.\nK: What I have found most effective with the President is to say with X carriers\nwe can do this, with Y do that, and SO forth.\nM: I understand. We worked up something similar last winter.\nK: That's what will be mosteuseful.\nFurther conversation: 11:20 a. m.\nK: I didn't frankly know what you were talking about until I talked with Haig.\nI never talked about decrement. My thought was opposite. It was to keep\nthe defense budget at what's useful and needed. So the whole thrust of the\nconversation was 180 degress opposite to what you were told. If you put it into\nmissions he will send more than he can pay for. One other thing, Zumwalt\ncalled Haldeman and said he didn't think the Navy's concerns were getting to\nthe President and could bax he see the President and Haldeman said it was\nout of order and had to go through me. That won't work in the WH.\nM: He is bouncing X like a rubber ball. I will x speak to him.\nK: I am not your trouble in this budgetary thing.\nM: Thanks for tell me. I will speak to him."
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