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    "ocrText": "Mr. Kissinger/Hugh Sidey\n12:05 p.m., May 14, 1972\n- 2 -\nTIMES or say the TIMES.\nK:\nYeah, but that TIMES report came from one of the participants\nwho participated in only two of the meetings. And I don't want to\ndowngrade his role, but you have to understand that a President makes\nhis decisions through a mosaic of conversations.\nS:\nYeah, as I say, I just can't imagine that we could have done\nanything really definitive on it.\nK:\nYou know, when this thing is well over, I may go over how the\ndecision was made, but really there's almost no one who could tell you.\nS:\nWell, let me take a check on that and see where we stand on it.\nK:\nOkay. Are you coming to Moscow with us if we go?\nS:\nIf you go oh, yes. I'll be there, if we go.\nK:\nWell, I'll tell you one thing. They're not going to be sweeping\nany snow off the streets.\nS:\nWell, that's some improvement.\nK:\nNo, I think the chances are two out of three now that we'll go.\nS:\nThat you'll go.\nK:\nYeah.\nS:\nWhat if that thing comes apart in South Vietnam, Henry, while\nwe are there. Or does it look better over there.\nK:\nIt looks better over there. Besides it would be a different context\nnow.\nS:\nWell, that's good. Well, I'll be along. We'll be there. I'll\nget all my shots and get ready. I'll take a check on this, but I think\nyour fears are premature because I just can't conceive of us giving\na box-score.\nK:\nWell, I think that would be unwise. Cause I don't think I told\nGerry exactly how the players lined up and I'd be the only one who'd know."
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