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    "ocrText": "3\nS:\nWell, listen\nK:\nYou know these are little nuances that don't make any difference\nbut they also\nS:\nthat really make a difference in the first place are\nquestions raised about this whole thing that I'd like to ask you SO\nthat I can straighten this out, the whole timing of this thing. There\nare various ways and various things that appeared in the press here.\nWe really ought to sit down and discuss this whole question of why\nit took SO long and give a reasonable and satisfactory explanation\nthat goes beyond simply saying how soon after October 31st can we\nstart talking. An awful lot of people are wondering why this wasn't\nworked out.\nK:\nWhy it wasn't worked out when?\nS:\nBy that deadline. Here it says at one point that you were supposed\nto go to Hanoi and then\nK:\nWell, you know there are a lot of stories around.\nNorth\nS:\nThat was in what the/Vietnamese said. They outlined out the whole\ntimetable.\nK:\nLook, if we publish the whole record it will make clear that they\nknew goddamn well that every timetable was hypothetical. I mean\nthey themselves said we changed it three times SO the fact that\nwe were changing timetables couldn't have been great news to them.\nS:\nWell, I just don't\nthat frankly. Maybe it'11 all come\nclear at some point.\nK:\nYou know what I find amazing. No one in the press thought one\nparagraph of the goddam thing had been drafted. For two years\nthere was nothing but criticism about the talk. What conceivable\nmotive could we have to do anything other than to get the best\npossible agreement and we're talking as I said in my press conference,\nabout a matter of weeks. You know it's very easy then suddenly\nto start negotiating and to start looking for dark motives if they\nhadn't blown it, it would have gone like many other hurtles and would\nhave finally been solved."
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