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    "ocrText": "Kennedy - page 2\nHAK: Well, from that point of view and I'll tell you we will have some Jackson\nxxxbxx problem on this one again. Can you phrase your resolution in such a way\nin which your preference is made clear? But you'd go along with something else\nas long as it moves it that direction?\nK: I think if they had -- I mean, if there was some language that they had that\nI think even that was worked out before, I think, that could help us\nHAK: I'm not opposed to the resolution as long as it isn't used to XMXWX knock\noff what's attainable.\nK: Yes. I suppose the Defense Department will be opposed to it.\nHAK; To the CTB?\nK: Yes.\nHAK: Totally. They're violently opposed to the threshhold test ban. Not\nviolently, but substantially opposed to the threshhold. They'll be violently\nopposed to the complete test ban. That I can assure you.\nK: The thinking in terms of the threshhold of moving towards a comprehensise\nand the treaty after that or is this just\nHAK: Well, I think it could certainly be -- we would not object to writing into\na threashhold test ban if this is a step towards a complete test ban. And we're\ngoing to put into the communique, this is just for your information, the\ndesirability of the complete test ban.\nK: Well, but if you were asked about it, Henry, I mean, the only thing we don't\nwant to get into a situation where\nHAK: I was asked about it by Humphrey. Let me tell you -- Humphrey at the\ncommittee. I said that I would prefer it after the summit but then I didn't look\nat it from the point XXX of view that you just raised. I would think that if you\n--\nif this think thing could be phrased in such a way that you maintain your position\non the comprehensive but that you'd go along with something as an intermediate\nstep or interim step then I wouldn't oppose it.\nK: I'll talk to Hubert and Ed at the -- I'll try to get them over the weekend or\nthe first of the week.\nHAK: Good. I'll be here thru Monday evening."
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