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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nSecretary Rogers/Mr. Kissinger\n10:45 a. m., February 27, 1973\nK:\nHello, Bill. I've just been talking to Bill Sullivan --\nR:\nI know that. I'd appreciate it if you'd speak to me.\nK:\nOkay, I just thought he could transmit it more easily.\nR:\nYeah. I have serious reservation about making any statement about\ncancelling the Conference.\nK:\nHe didn't say -- There's no issue of cancelling the Conference.\nR:\nWell, maybe I didn't get the signals straight then.\nK:\nOh, no. What he said is -- What he's going to say is that he's asking\nyou to demand clarification.\nR:\nYes, I understand.\nK:\nAnd to conduct no other business until you've received that clarification.\nR:\nWell, on that one, why don't we just say the first until -- I mean, if we\nstart saying things like that, we're going to have the other governments\njust say to go to hell. They're not too happy about it anyway. It seems to\nme I ought to be able to have the opportunity to talk to the other side.\nHonest. And then if it's unsatisfactory, then start making threats.\nBut you'll find that some of the other parties are fed up anyway with the\nwhole idea of the Conference and they'll just say well, you fellows have it,\nwe're going home.\nYou follow me?\nK:\nYeah. Let me raise it with the President.\nR:\nIt seems to me you can say the same thing and the same sense of urgency\nwithout the threat. I'd rather not on the phone go into the details but\nyou'll find that a couple of these governments will just leave. If we start\nsaying that without checking with them, they will just - -\nK:\nWell, I would doubt that but still you --\nR:\nI'm here, I can tell you that. I just had two conversations I don't want\nto go into it on the phone but I know that's what the situation is.\nK:\nOkay. Let me check it with the President right away."
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