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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nMr. Kissinger\nMartin Mayer\n10/27/71; 6:20 p.m.\n-2-\nK: I am mentioning this for your information on page 5 where\nyou speak about the President and after the JCS and Defense Department\nhave made their presentations -- as it happens on that sort of\nissue,\nyes. It never happens that\nwe\nwould make a decision in which they then don't get called in.\nM: I see.\nK: There is no doubt that I have more of a chance to present my view\nthan they do. It is also true that I go to extraordinary lengths not to\npush my view.\nM: From the point of view of people sitting in the departments this\nis the way it looks to them which I think is the context here.\nK: It doesn't bother me. I merely do this out of a sense of accuracy.\nOn Eliot maybe he held a job in Geneva but that's the first I heard\nabout it\nM: I will check that further tomorrow morning. This is a recollection\nI\nhad before you had a class with him.\nK: The impact he made on me was because of Washington not Geneva.\nOn page 9 my relations with the Rockefeller brothers came through\nNelson not through David and I met Nelson when he called me back in\n1955 when he was an advisor to Eisenhower on \"where to go in our\nforeign policy after the first Geneva Summit. 11 On page 10 I have\na problem. I know doubt said what you have and my enemies no doubt\nwill use this.\nM: That's where you say I could make a mistake but\nK:\nthe reason I like Nelson SO much\nTake Nixon out of the\nparagraph. If you can say my heart is\ntake that out.\nM: That's very human\nK: On page 12, a purely accuracy point -- I don't get a formal briefing\nevery morning. I get a written briefing every morning and in crisis\nperiods I do get an oral briefing."
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