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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President\np. 5\nP: Except that we do not want to leave it in a position where\nwe can let a Cooper\nnot Cooper but a Church - - he's got one he's\npassing around, some sort of a resolution to say that the United States\nwill not support a South Vietnamese invasion of the North. See that's\nwhat we want to avoid. Now in two months, we'll be over it but for the\nnext two months we've got to keep it in a situation where we\na\nresolution could be very harmful to the South Vietnamese and to us, and\nvery encouraging to the North, apart from what we say we just don't\nwant to do anything. I just don't want to leave it in aposition where a\nresolution is inevitable.\nK: Well, I was thinking in any event, given that note that\nDobrynin handed me, which wasn't too aggressive on Friday for you\nwhether if you were to say something at your press conference that indicated\nthat there's no American plan to do something like this.\nP: I've already said that. Of oourse, if you'll read what I said\nin the office press conference I said we have no plans. I just said I won'd\nspecuadte on what they would do.\nK: Well, if you were to repeat that, then I think I should tell it\nto Dob rynin the day before and pretend that it is a response to his suggestion,\njust to keep that dialogue going.\nP: Tune. I'm not concerned really so much Henry about\nDobrynin. I'm really concerned\nK: No, you're concerned with the public position here.\nP: I'm concerned about frankly the Senate moving of on another\njackass Cooper-Church amendment see. With a huge damned debate about it\nand so forth and then what we don't expect to do they say we've restrained\nthem. See my point?\nK: Oh absolutely.\nP: That's how Cooper-Church all came out. So, we don't have to\ndecide it tonight, but we'll give some heavy thought to that between now and the\ntime of the conference.\nEnd of tape"
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