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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nDr. Kreamer\n10/28/71 4:30 p.m. p. 2\nFK: And I have done this exclusively in your interest. You can dictate\na note to your secretary in just a few minutes.\nK: It's the principle that I don't think I should have to deal with you by written\nnotes.\nFK: We have done so for years. I don't know what you have said to this man\nK: I haven't said anything to him.\nFK: They ask me questions. I have always succeedad so far in giving\nthe right answers, somewhere in the middle.\nK: Look Kraemer, I wxixdx was ill the whole week before we went away\nFK: I understand. But I know\nK: You don't have any idea what goes on here any more.\nFK: I am not so naive. I swear to you.\nK: But what went on before is child's play compared to\nFK: I am convinced that from what went on two days ago a new EXX exax\nera will be counted.\nK: And you know why they voted. Becau se that son of a bitch at Stated\nwanted to take the headlines from my return.\nFK; We tried\nK: By that time it was too late. The whole thing was geared to the publicity,\nnot to what should be done. It was a fraud from the beginning to the end because\nif you look at the votes against us, you can't tell me there were 4 or 5 that\ncouldn't have been switched.\nFK: To my mind it was XNN counter-productive from the moment that\n[names many small nations]\n[began voting].\nK: It should have been done in a more low-key to begin with.\nFK: I agree with you, and more elegantly.\nK: More elegantly you can't expect.\nFK: But even from the smallest\nfrom the Maldime Islands, who\ndidn't have anyone there because they couldn t afford it\nwe said, 'send"
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