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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nK:\nBut if you prepared us a little bit for it. I mean we have certainly\nbeen very candid with you about our most secret things. You know\nthe President feels you totally misled him last week. I know there\nwas a traumatic( (?) sentence that if I had understood it properly I\nshould have known, but I took it at face value and reported it like\nthat. It is a very dangerous game.\nI:\nI don't think that anybody wanted to mislead. This I must say.\nK:\nNo, if you had said we will do something but it will not upset the\nbalance( You know\nI:\nThat's right. That's what\nK:\nWe would have understood it, we wouldn't have welcomed it, but we\nwould have understood it.\nI:\nIf I remember correctly,\nK:\nHe said you would do nothing to\nI:\nUpset the tranquility or somelthing like that.\nK:\nThat is right, but that passed me by that subtlety.\nI:\nBecause you know after things like that it is just impossible not to react\nat all and I can tell you from what I have heard and I am sure you will\napprove of that part of the story that what you are doing now is also\nlimited actions and we have been told\nK:\nWe are not children and we know what your needs are but we also have\na very tough situation with the Soviets and you know we are delaying\nactions on a lot of things but the price for that is that we cannot have\nthem totally publicly humiliated.\nI:\nYes.\nK:\nWhen I come - the Ambassador, when will he be back.\nI:\nSurely I think he will be back on Tuesday night.\nK:\nWell I will show you some things that happened in Moscow that will\nexplain to you why this is a very very unfortura te time.\nI:\nYes. Well, I will transmit this immediately Dr. Kissinger."
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