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    "ocrText": "Telcon\nMr. Kissinger\nBernard Gwertzman\n5/24/73; 9:45 a. m.\n-4-\ndeliberately we went through all the outstanding issues to see which\ncould be settled quickly. And this was one of them.\nG: I see.\nK: Now that doesn't mean -- so it wasn't really so much geared towards\nanswering specific concerns but rather to go through the agenda items --\nof course the hot-line one -- the hot-line in our mind here was really\nmore geared towards if something odd happens in bilateral relations such\nas a plane going wild or something like that.\nG: Right.\nK: How we can communicate more effectively.\nG: Right.\nK: Or any foreseeable Chinese problem -- it won't happen so fast that we\nwill need a hot-line.\nG: Uh-huh. Yeah. So that's what I thought at the time, also.\nK: Now I can just tell you what was in my mind and the hot-line thing was\nreally done between Dobrynin and me on behalf of our principals.\nG: Yeah. Yeah. I wish I could talk to you about this other stuff -- you\nknow.\nK: Vietnam?\nG: No. No. I meant the stuff the columnists have been badgering me with.\nI am so sorry. I must have saw about four different on the TIMES last week.\nK: I have decided that the atmosphere is such that you make yourself a\ndefendant and there is no end to it. I think any reading of what the President\nput out on Tuesday incidentally without my knowledge and without my\nwhetting it make it perfectly clear that my office or I had nothing to do with\nany of the security things that were being done except the first batch. And\nif anyone should think that anyone could believe that something ordered by\nthe President authorized by the Attorney General and carried out by the"
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