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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nSecretary Laird\n5:05 p. m. 9/30/69\nK said he talked to the President about their meeting and also about Laird's\nconcern about dangers of a direct confrontation. He is now leaning to have\nthe heads of the agencies testify but not permitting any subordinates. It\nwill still produce some confrontation. Laird said they would have to call\nthe crytologist and didn't feel they should get too much into the committe\nanyway. K said the President was going to make a public statement\nsometime early tomorrow. The second thing was the President is going to\nKey Biscayne on Thursday evening and would like to meet with the Joint\nChiefs XNX and Laird on Saturday afternoon. Laird indicated that he would\nbe going to NORAD but could cancel that. K said the President would like\nto review, SO he knows, what he is up against. He will want to discuss the\nplan they discussed in his office briefly with Mitchell.\nLaird's problem was that he wasn't expecting the report until Thursday,\nit would take him some time to go over it and Wheeler would not be here.\nWheeler will be back on Monday or Tuesday. Laird didn't think he could get\nWheeler back. K said the President was more interested in the concept\nrather than the details and would really like to do it this weekend. If Laird\ncould get the report tomorrow, they could take it Thursday night. Laird said\nit would be raw since he will not have all of the inputs. Wheeler's\nmeeting with Abrams. They will think the President is trying to bypass their\nconference. K indicated that he told Robinson they couldn't work SO slowly\nespecially when the President is SO anxious for this. K was under the impression\nthat Wheeler would be sending in some of the stuff on Mon. or Tues. Laird siad\nhe sent the first raw material over. K said he would be reviewing it at 6:00.\nLaird wanted K to know that he hadn't reviewed it nor had the Joint Chiefs.\nK sa id the President wants to get a feel of this. He will understand that it is\nraw. He doesn't care if there are 25 planes more or less. Laird the material\nthat would not be complete would be the targeting. They can't do it overnight.\nSince the President has a foreign policy reason for wanting to do this, K thought\nthat Laird should count on doing it, K will point out to the President Laird's\nconcerns. Certainly there will be a full review of the finished product and not no\ndecision will be made at this meeting at K. B. They will have weeks to polish it\nup. K said he would like to sit down with Laird and the Joint Chiefs at a separate\nsession and discuss this also. K said, pending the President changing his mind,\nwe should lay it on. K indicated that the President can focus better on it in this\natmosphere also and it hebps for diplomatic reasons. Laird said he would then\nbring the four Chiefs minus Wheeler. K asked if he could have the report\nby\nThursday night then and Laird said he thought he could get something but it will\ncertainly be raw. K said he understodo that.\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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