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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nSecretaryLaird\n(Secure Voice)\n4/11/72 8:18am\nL: I think you will find things here are in good shape -- ARVN\nin MR-1. They are in a good posture. I wanted to check a couple of things wi\nyou. Haven't been able to get dawnx a drone in on that Chinese truck park\nK: No, what we want to get is those three around Hanoi.\nL: We will try to get some info on that. The last pictures of\nthe Chiresetruck park we have were taken in August.\nK: That we were going to throw in as a bonus. We want the three\nthey are yelling about around Hanoi. You were the one who was talking\nabout that one.\nL: I just don't want to insure there are trucks there. You understood\nthat.\nK: I understood nothing.\nL:\nweather today in Hanoi or we will have gotten\nreconnaissance on that today. But we will as soon as possible. On the B-52s\nwe have got that planned. It will be ready to go tomorrow afternonn. It will\nprobably be that airfield.\nK: Can you give us a choise between that target and the airfield?\nL: We will have a choice on that. As far as the number of planes,\nI think the priority should still be in the battlefield. And I wouldn't go over 18.\nK: Hit something more lucrative.\nL: The most lucrative according to Abrams and McCain are\nin the battlefield area.\nK: They go through that all the time. They have lost us the war\nL: They have not lost us the war.\nK: For years they have been screaming about lack of restraint.\nNow we take the reins off and to get them to fly up north is like pulling teeth.\nL: No, they will fly up north. We are doing these other strikes\nfor political purposes, not for military purposes.\nK: And showing the Russians we will come up north.\nL: We'll go there. The other area we have got to look at has to\ndo with SALT. I would like to send a memo over today. I think this is a"
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