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Telcon; 6 May 72;5:05 p.m. The President/HAK P: Hello. Have you finished your day's work yet? K: Yes. P: Are you home? K: No, Ilm not home. I'm going to have to stay here for part of the evening to get some of this planning done. P: Right. And have you found anybody beside you, Connally, Haig and I that are for this thing? K: Well, I must tell you something amazing. I talked to this group and I wouldn't tell you what I thought and then at the end of talking about it. P: The intelligence group? K: No, this is four of my staff members, some intelligence people and I did it entirely on the contingency plan basis. P: I see. K: You know, what we analyzed was the technical side. The X logistics side, the reactions of other countries. P: Well, forget the reactions of the United States. That's my job. K: No, no, the reactions of the Soviet Union and China. P: Right. K: And especially. India we didn't pay any attention to. P: From the . K: And to my absolute amazement, then at the end I went around the table and said all right now, you give me your opinions SO that when the President asks me I will be sure that I have weighed every consideration. And all except one came out for it. The judgment was P: K: Well, we didn't discuss the domestic side. One is logistically (?)

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