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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nPresident Nixon/Secretary Kissinger\nFebruary 11, 1974\n6:30 PM\nK; Mr. President.\nN: Hi, how are you, Henry.\nK: I just want to bring you up to date on how that conference went.\nN: Yes. Fine.\nK: I gave the talk and Simon gave a very good talk. We just laid out\nthe problem. Then Ohira, everybody gave talks supporting our position.\nOhira was excellent. Schmidt spoke for Germany because Scheel\nhad represented the European community. Schmidt was superlative,\nand if you have a chance to say something to him tonight you might mention\nthat. Home was pretty good. Good you could say. And he was supported,\nwell to make a long story short, everybody was good. Except Jobert,\nwho was a bastard. He made a really vicious speech, in fact people\nwere groaning, misquoting your State of the Union Address, quoting\ndemocratic Senators as to how bad our policy is, it was lawful.\nN: Yes. We'll just ignore that.\nK: I think we should ignore it tonight. Where we will be tomorrow now\nis simply this; if the other eight Europeans stand up to Jobert we can\nhave a good communique, if they don't stand up to him then I should think\nwe should say the hell with it and that we met and we had a nice meeting.\nI don't think we should fake a great success because the Saudis have now\ncome to us and offered us bilateral deals and we shouldn't bind ourselves\nSO we can't get them to work with us. Incidentally I hardly dare tell\nyou but we have\nassurance.\nN: Al told me, I got that.\nK: And also the Egyptians are going to announce that restoration of\ndiplomatic relations with us shortly after that.\nN: That's good, well, I just hope the Europeans will stand up to this\nfellow, but who knows.\nK: That's really where we stand at the conference.\nN: Right."
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