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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nBob Toth/Secretary Kissinger\nJune 4, 1974\n5:38 pm\nT: You must be exhausted.\nK: Yes.\nT: I'm in the process of doing a pixxx piece, trying to put a little book bit of\na human X flesh on this mission. I've read both Bernie Gwertzman and\nMarilyn Berger's pieces about the three times where you were ready to pack\nup and leave. But I was just wondering how it affected you personnally. I'm\nkind of intrigued by, we got a cable from our guy on the XXXX spot who\nmentioned the\ncalling you Nixon's Jewboy and things like that. Do you\nreally have a kind of personal involvement in this because of this\nalleges.\nK: I'd rather not talk about that. I think you can figure most of it out yourself.\nT: Yes. I gather, you know, there were real ups and downs on it but from\nwhat I understand of the cables you sent back that it was relatively matter of\nfact\nK: My cables just dexx described the negotiating situation each day.\nT: Without getting into being down or up or anything like that.\nK: Exact1v. You know, they occasionally gave an assessment of the prospect.\nT: I understand that the worse you ever xxxxxx complained was that there was\nshortsidedness on the part of both sides after the initial breakthrough when you\nstarted the quiveling process. I guess that was about the worse of it. Well,\nthat's about all. I wasx hoping to be able to, I know you're very busy, to come\nby and talk to you about your personal impressions of thyx the whole thing, but\nK: Well, you know I'm unbelievably busy with the President's trip.\nT: Yes. Can you sum it up for me. I mean, it must have been the hardest\nnegotiations you were every involved in, physically, as well as\nK: Well, it was the most difficult, it was the most emotional and, you know,\nit was from every point of view -- this is not for quotation.\nT: CK.\nK: The most complex and the most difficult negotiation."
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