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    "ocrText": "Page 2\nSec. Connally/Mr. Kissinger\nJC: I just give you his name because I have kept up with him, I know\nwhat he thinks and what his record is, and probably has the finest\ncombat record of any man serving the Marine Corps today.\nHAK: Right.\nJC: So these two namesI give to you because the President asked\nfor them.\nHAK: Let me get at them immediately. Now while I have you on the\nphone --we have got a massive problem. Laird in his usual way is\ncarrying out the order, but he is on record now--he - is apposed to it\nhe says it is a major political problem - domestically and internationally\nit makes Vietnam number one issue in the world, which is exactly the\nopposite of what we have been doing. It takes away from--in other words\nhe is totally opposed to it. I have talked to Dick Helms--he is opposed\nto it. I know goddamn well what Rogers is going to do. Dick is opposed\nto it because he thinks I am getting an itelligence estimate. I think they\nthink they can divert to overland within four weeks and I am raising the\nquestion with if we do this and it falls it, that is one situation,\nif on the the other hand our senior preple behave as after Cambodia and\nannounce that this is risking SALT, then of course it will ruin SALT.\nSo I wonder just what your reaction to this situation is.\nJC: My reaction is that the action that he has taken is the absolutely\ncorrect action--it is the right action domestically and internationally,\npolitically, militarily and diplomatically. It is the right action.\nIf he gets substantial dissension from those of authority from who are\nsupposed to be carrying out his orders, I think it leaves him no choice--\nbut to fire them. And I think he has to prepared to go that far if their\npublic utterance begin to destroy the SALT talks or the summit.\nHAK: Right.\nJC: That is my reaction.\nHAK: That is my reaction, I just wanted to know how you felt about it."
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