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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nMr. Kissinger\nThe President\n12/17/69; 6:40 p. m.\nK said Mr. President I wanted to mention two things. One, State Department\nis again suggesting that they surface the Jordan package tomorrow at the four-\npower talks. P asked before the 20th? K said if they are ever going to do it\nthey should do it tomorrow. Admittedly, it is going to raise hell with the\nIsraelis. P said you put Cellar(? over there and that is right I am inclined\nto let it surface. P said give private reassurance to Mrs. Meir and let it go.\nP said let State see if they can field it. They are not going to send anyone\nover here to see me. P said State is going to answer all the questions. P\nsaid let's get that word around.\nK said the second thing I wanted to mention is my conversation with the Romanian.\nK said Romanian transmitted what P said to Chinese and North Vietnamese.\nThe Chinese were interested in normal relations with the West and us but\nnothing specific. K said on Vietnam the Romanian said he transmitted exactly\nwhat the P said to the North Vietnamese and then the Romanian just stated\nNVN's normal conditions that we had to withdraw all our forces, coalition\ngovernment in the South, etc. K said I just told him what your position was\nbased on your speeches. K said I don't think we should send a message with\nhim. K said I told the Romanian the next move would be up the NVN. K said\nthe only hopeful thing he can see is that the Romanian might want to be able to\nreport back that we are in fact firm and that there has not been any change.\nBut, K said that's reaching for things. P said I don't know why he came. K\nsaid and he had to come this week. K said I am sending you my notes on the\nmeeting just SO you have something. K said I will send them over in just a few\nminutes. P said it looks tome he must have come for reasons of just to\ncreate an impression that they are talking to us. P said they have their\nproblems, too and I think we should just stick to what we say. K said I think\nwe should stick where we are now. P said Chinese think we are making that\nmove (?) K said we will worry them both. K said I found that Elliot Richardson\nwas slobbering over Dobrynin and let a few things out. P said oh, he just had\na few drinks and\nK said the lucky thing$ is they won't believe them.\nP said my view is that I wouldn't tell them anything. P said if I were the\nState Department I would just let them guess. P said we have to have our own\nprivate contacts on these we can't count on State. P said anything we do\nimportant has to be done privately. K agreed. K said I think you should see\nhim (Romanian? P said I don't think I will spend much time with him. K\nsaid you might again - - stick where we are now. P said we want to be friendly\nwith regard to the Romanians as such.\nP said the African thing produced what we expected it. K said I thought you\nhandled it with great delicacy. P said Helms(?) took a strong position.\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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