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    "ocrText": "-2-\nK:\nGood. I'll spend part of my time in New York in the first two weeks,\nbut right after that lets\nS:\nWell, no hurry.\nK:\nWell, we should do it fairly soon SO that we both know where we're going.\nS:\nThings are moving around down here in very restless fashion.\nWhile\nI have you on the phone, I think that the Trident thing, the way it's\nbeing shoved, is the greatest single mistake that I'vê seen since I've\nbeen around, because why do we have to rush it this way, you know?\nK:\nYeah, I didn't realize\nS:\nYeah, it's got everybody mad, and the lobbying - I've never seen\nanything like it.\nK:\nReally?\nS:\nNever, since I've been here, and it's Rickover primarily, supported\nby the Navy, and it's only two years that they get on one ship, they'11\nbe are as an industrialist 00 they'll be building 10 before they complete\none. And I notice, one sheet says since Congress reconvened earlier\nthis month admirals have become as familiar in the corridors of the\nSenate Office Building as Senate pages. Admiral Zimwalt, the Chief\nof Naval Operations and Vice Admiral Rickover have been leading the\nshoe leather brigade. The admirals have been talking to their usual\nallies and they've even been visiting Senate doves trying without\napparent success to convince them of the wisdom of speeding up Trident.\nSo desperate has the Navy become that Zumwalt charged as follows.\nQuote. Soviet agents quote were on Capitol Hill lobbying against the\nnew submarine. Well, it's leaving a very bad taste in everybody's\nmouth because it totally violates Laird's premise of fly before you buy,\nand any industrialist, like myself, knows that working on 10 submarines\nbefore you finish one just doesn't make any sense. We've given them\n642 million dollars to go ahead with a normal program, and they\naccelerated for two years, and I'm not telling you anything I haven't\nsaid to Scoop.\nK:\nYeah.\nS:\nAnd we passed it this year, the one committee that studied it recommen-\nded unanimously against it. And then the full committee recommended\nagainst it. Then they worked on Barry Goldwater and got him to change.\nI know you're busy but it's this type and character situation that's"
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