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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nAmb. Kenneth Galbraith/Mr. Kissinger\n11:05 a.m., February 6, 1973\nK:\nBecause I really didn't say what -- At least I didn't intend what they\nquoted. I just intended to say I am not going to apply to go back.\nG:\nDon't even say that. Say that, \"Well, my expectation is that I'll someday\nbe more\". you know, be deflative about it. Say, someday I rather expect\nthat I might be more valuable to a University than I was before. Something\nto that effect.\nK:\nRight.\nWell, I think they've already vacated my chair now so it doesn't --\nG:\nWell, that is absolutely a general action anyway.\nK:\nI\nbeg your pardon. They did it yesterday. I just read it in the newspaper.\nG:\nBeg your pardon.\nK:\nI\nread\nit\nin\nthe newspaper -- they did it with exquisite sense of timing\nyesterday, the day before I'm leaving for Hanoi.\nG:\nWell, but that doesn't mean anything. You know, I've had the same\nexperience. It's all their way that anybody coming back from outside is\nregarded as somewhat of a threat to the quiet, academic and comfortable\nlife of the inside men. Do you know what I mean?\nK:\nYeah.\nG:\nAnd that's understandable. They have a dull life. Don't ease the situation\nfor them. After this boils away, say -- well, I have every expectation -- I\nhave a feeling that nothing that has happened in these last years would make\nme seasonally less valuable or something of that sort.\nK:\nRight. appreciate that. Ken, when are you going to be back?\nG:\nWhy don't you stop and do some skiing?\nK:\nI'd love to do that (chuckle).\nG:\nThe war is over; there's nothing now pressing you. Why don't you stop and\nenjoy yourself for a few days.\nK:\nMay I tell you what a third grade student wrote me -- a group of third\ngraders was asked by their teacher to write me a letter each of them\nwriting me congratulating me on the end of the war and one of them said:"
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