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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nAmb. Peterson/Kissinger\n11:20 a.m. - 5/24/73\nK:\nI hope you'll keep your mouth shut down there tomorrow.\nP:\nI thought I'd assume the offensive. Why should I keep my mouth shut?\nWhat have I got to lose?\nK:\nThat's right.\nP:\nI've been accused of maligning him in life which is fewer risks than\nI pay out and it isn't\nto take full advantage of it.\nK:\nListen Pete, Haig called you yesterday at my request but he got every-\nthing a little bit screwed up. You know I talked to him before I left\nand said we want to move on that when I get back but I also told him to\nsay it thinking I'd be back. Let me tell you what I have in mind.\nThe more I thought of our conversation the mor e it seemed to me that\nit just wouldn't work on a few months basis, even if you wanted to only\nstay a few months. You see what I mean.\nP:\nUm-hmmm.\nK:\nBut your clients had to have the sense that you were a more permanent\nfeature than the people you'd have to deal with and that's why I had\nthought of Under Secretary of State. Then I thought more and thought\nno, we had to get you something else as your base. Now I think - what\nI have in mind, Pete, and I've been reinforced in that by my trip to\nfor\nEurope. As you to work closely with me as being a man who more or\nless\nthe Year or Europe. And on top of that you get a restructured\nCIAP which will be in closer relationship to the NSC because it just doesn't\nwork as a totally separate thing-- at least the way it is now. Either\nPresidential appointment and which I think would now work and I really think\nthat you and I together could then run American foreign policy.\nP:\nYeh.\nWell okay, I'll think about it. I think the risks are very high,\nHenry.\nHK:\nPete, at this time, as I told you once--it is like being asked to take over\nTitantic after it hit the iceberg. The risks are enormous but the changes\nare as equally enormous for the country. And there is a few of us who\nhave a little credibility left, don't start moving now and do what is right,\nI really think the risks are enormous. On the other hand, the opportunities"
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