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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nMax Fisher\n12/13/69 9:20 a. m.\nF said he had called K enough; K said he had tried to return F's call the\nother day, and had asked Len Garment to call him.\nF said this situation- - the understanding was if there's going to be a shift\nin policy toward the Middle East I was to be kept informed. F said he is\nin an embarrassing position with all these big meetings in New York. K\nsaid what big meetings. F said the United Jewish Appeal and the KDC (?).\nF has been the principle speaker. K said what secret meetings. F said\nno secret meetings. F said I didn't say secret meetings. K said then\nwhat meetings. F said here in New York. K said by whom? F said may-\nbe I'd better start all over again. F said there are meetings of Jewish\ncommunities\nK said oh, I understand. F said\ngreeted warmly\nhere by a feeling of a major shift in policy on the Middle East. F said my\nunderstanding was if there was a change I should be kept informed. F said\nif I have leadership role in Jewish community, I should be told. F said\nhas there been a shift in policy? K said Joe Sisco was supposed to give\nyou a full briefing. K said Len Garment called Sisco ar our request and\nSisco said he would give you a full briefing. F said I haven't had it. K\nsaid you check with Len; I thought the matter was under control. F said\nif I'm going to be effective, I should know where we stand. F said if I am\nto speak out, I have to know where we stand. F said if there's been a\nshift, and they don't want me to know about it, I should know that too. K\nsaid there's been no shift. K said I was very busy or I'd have briefed you\nmyself, but Sisco said he would do it.\nF said and then I was told there was going to be a speech by Rogers. F\nsaid on top of it to have Humphrey speak and blast the Middle East state-\nment--he made quite a speech. F said he was quite a man to be opposite\nto, but that's not the point. F said Joe Sisco\nI didn't have informa-\ntion; I just got a copy of the speech now. F said there was a telegram\nsent by the P for him to read and it was greeted not in a way F didn't\nlike. F said he called Joe on Wednesday, but he was out of town and no-\nbody knew where to reach him and nobody knew where he was. F said\nthe meetings are going on through the weekend. F said it's very unfor-\ntunate; I don't know what this is all about. K said right; out position is\ntaken along the lines of the Security Council position that's been agreed\nto--no major shift. F said is definition of borders a shift in policy? K\nsaid on Egyptian de--similar to what the P said at the UN to which\nEban agreed. K said but that the P said already in September. F said\nmaybe it's the tone; I don't know, there has been a breakdown in commun-\nications, I am not satisfied yet. K said why don't you talk to Joe Sisco?\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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