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    "ocrText": "-2-\nK. I have told you.\nD. What you have in mind I have a distinctive feeling can\nbe done.\nK. I didn't make the toast at the dinner last night.\nD. She felt that was a closed meeting.\nK. Those of my colleagues that were at the meetings I chaired\nfor three weeks could not believe what they heard. It was\nastonishing. I changed going to an award dinner I was\ngetting in New York to going to the dinner. I didn't want\na collision course.\nD. I think that\nand I have been doing everything in my\npower\nK.\nLet's see where we are on the immediate problem and work\nout\nFifteen NATO ambassadors called on me about the\nsame stories and about our energy situation. Those are\nfacts of life. We can see if we can find common procedures\nand commence to see if this If you can get rid of some\nof your principals in this election we can do better. You\nhave that choice.\nD. I don't quite follow you.\nK. You can launder your own key people and see if that will\nwhat realities as is produced. We haven't made one\nsingle proposal on a long-term settlement and no agreements\nwith anyone on long-term settlement. I have told you a\nhundred times that there was not going to be an American\nplan. There must be something. Maybe I shouldn't be SO\nhonest.\nD. That can never be in our relationship. If we take the\nlong-term settlement.\nK. My impression is you are SO concerned about the long-term\nsettlement you will not take a short-term settlement. When\nwe meet we will tell her exactly what I believe must be done\nand we will see if you can do it or not do it. If you will\nnot and you believe it is impossible, we will have to see\nwhat the President will decide at that point.\nD. Yes.\nK. I have intended to develop the absolute minimum that has\nto be done. We cannot make a settlement with Brezhnev, go\nto Tel Aviv and come to the brink of war and go over that\nagain in a week over a settlement you agreed with"
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