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    "ocrText": "No Objection to Declassification in Part 2013/05/09 NLN-TELCONS-3-7-26-4\n-8-\nYou can talk a little to Saphire if you like. Maybe he can help a little on it.\nForeign policy should be very strong and I don't think we should say a hell\nof a lot about it.\nK: In foreign policy you are in good shape. You just give a little of the\nphilosophy doctrine and say you are going to cover it in greater detail.\nP: We have to say a little about Vietnam\nmaybe pick up what we said\nNov 3rd and say it a little differently. We are for a just peace. We\nhave\nseen progress in Asia, in Japan. We have seen progress here. There are\nother areas in the world where there are still problems. The Mid-East\nis still difficult. I will cover it all. We are not going to retreat from our\nworld commitments. We are going to keep them. I would use it to make\nanother whack at the Nixon Doctrine. The Nixon Doctrine is not a retreat\nfrom our world responsibilities. It is a method -- a new way. Whether\nit is Latin America or any other area in the world. If you don't mention\neverybody they will feel hurt. My point is that we feel that it is time for\nthe industrial nations of the world all the nations of the world. You\nmight give it a historical slant. As we enter the '70's more than 25 years\nhave passed since W W II we made a new policy to deal with the\nnew situation. For 25 years the US had to assume the major responsibility.\nWe are for negotiation rather than for confrontation.\nK: This is the theme already of it, from some of my notes on that.\nWhat I feel really was expressed by LBJ. Yesterday he said the Nixon\nthat showed purposeful and confident is the old Nixon. This is the wrong\nway of putting it. But what he means is tough and strong and purposeful.\nN: That says not soft and not begging and screaming. And I think this\nspeech did not indicate a strong posture.\nK: And this speech could have been given by any president or by Humphrey.\nIt is not really addressed to the peoples' concern or to the real problems\nbut to talk about solutions, yes, we have got to do something. What you\nsaid, we could be the richest people and be the unhappiest.\nN: If that thing was said by the Kennedys the papers would have emoted\nall over the place and said it was great. As I set here, and I know I will\nbe here all night, all day tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, but to have to\ngo through this.\nK: It is too much\nP: It is too much when you think what I ought to be using my time for.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nbe declassified."
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