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    "ocrText": "Donald Marron/Mr. Kissinger\n- 4 -\n2:17 p.m., January 24, 1973\nK:\nWell, there are about 500 companies that have asked me. I just don't\nknow what being on a Board of Directors means.\nM:\nWell, I think in our case it would mean just coming back to some old\nfriends and coming to three or four meetings a year. And I think it could\nwork out well but that's something that we can talk about when it looks like\nyou're getting closer.\nK:\nSure.\nM:\nBut I thought it would be a way to solve some of the problems cause you\nshould have some freedom after you get out -- and some income too.\nK:\nYeah.\nM:\nTo\noperate\nwith. But I guess you really haven't decided what you're going\nto do.\nK:\nhaven't. You know, I just got back last night. I m needed for at least\na few months to get this thing going.\nM:\nI'm really encouraged about the whole Administration. I don't know\nwhether you know it or not but they asked me to come down to talk to\nRoy Ash about a month ago.\nK:\nYes, I know very well. It couldn't have happened without me.\nM:\nWell, that's what I kinda thought. But I didn't want to call you because\nI didn't want to , you know --\nK:\nWhat did you decide to do?\nM:\nI decided that I just couldn't do it at the moment.\nK:\nWell, that's what I\nM:\nYou know, the job that they offered me didn't have enough visibility\nto justify it to my associates.\nK:\nNo, no; I knew that you were offered the job. But I also didn't -- you\nknow, if I had thought it was exactly the right thing for you, I would have\npressed it.\nM:\nWell, that's what I kinda thought and I didn't want to call you because\nI thought they might have put you on the spot at the time. But in order\nfor me to leave Mitchell-Hutchins now, it would have to be something of\nenough visibility to justify it to my associates. Although I must say the"
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