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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nSenator Fulbright\nMr. Kissinger\n7/16/69, 7:40 p. m.\nK said he wanted to talk to F about a conversation he had with Chuck Percy\nthis afternoon concerning a number of Senators who are planning to talk on\nthe Floor on Monday with respect to Vietnam negotiations and that he was\ntold F would consider doing this if he could be assured on the point that we\nwould abide by the results of general free elections. K said he spoke to the\nPresident and F can be assured that we will abide by the outcome of the\nelections even with a Communist majority. F said he realized that this is\na very difficult thing to do. K said we are going to use every strap of\ninfluence we have to make sure the elections are conducted SO that the\nCommunists get a fair run. K said we got Thieu to agree to a joint electoral\ncommission on which the Communists will be represented. K said we are\nnot committed to maintain a government in Saigon against popular wishes.\nF said he was glad to hear that. F asked K if he called it \"mixed electoral\ncommission, 11 and K said yes, Thieu offered that on Friday and that is what\nwe urged. F asked what would happen to the Constitution. K said nothing\nwas said about that in the offer -- it was said that the NLF could participate\nin full force and that, K said, is in violation of the Constitution. In order\nto implement the offer the Constitution would have to be amended. K said\nThieu fully understands that and it was discussed at Midway. K said if\nHanoi would talk seriously we are confident that we could come up with a\nsolution that is fair and reasonable. K again said we are not there to keep\nany one government in power and said this, of course, we don't want to be\nquoted on. F said he would like to say something to move it off dead center\nbut it wouldn't be done on Monday because you people over there have declared\nit a holiday. K said that he forgot about that. F said it would have to be done\non Tuesday.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified."
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