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    "ocrText": "Jos. Kraft/Kissinger\n9:30 am\n2/3/70\n-3-\nJK: I could not find \"virtually infallible. 11\nK: He has said that to many groups.\nJK: Nuclear blackmail?\nK: He may not have said it publicly.\nJK: What does it mean?\nK: You can't ask me to debate the merit of the statement. I want you to under- -\nstand what happened.\nJK: I am sorry if I gave you pain. If I am wrong, no one will be glader. If\nthis\nis a wrong concern, these others with should be set straight in a hurry.\nK: On the substance, they will have that opinion. It will still be controversial.\nBut it can be debated on it's merits. I will not discuss it except with someone\nlike you.\nJK: Look at what happened between Smith and Gore. And Mansfield says it was\nlike hell.\nK: Feelings were strong last year and they may be this year. We would like\nto prevent the depate we had last year. Howeverx, it comes out, it will be drastic\nto the SALT talksk. I will tell you either when the SALT talks or when this is\nsolved -- I will tell you what has actually happened. The liberal should not\nalways assume that there is a demon who is trying to wreck things. There\ncannot be any interest in having another brutal debate. We are talking about\nmarginal not a qualitative change.\nJK: If this is your approach then there has been a blunder.\na\nK: You said we had masked our true feelings last year. It was a planxixgs group\nof Harvard proffessors brought to me and later reniged on. We are doing nothing\nsubstantially different from last year. It's a debate that has been triggered pre-\nmaturely and without knowing what it is all about. We have tried to do it with\nsome sense towards the SALT talks and without any attempt to load the scaled.\nAll the people have seen every paper that has gone forward to the Preisdent.\nWhat interest could someone have to ram something through.\nJK: Two explanations have been given. One is to *xxx talkx take high anti-\ncommunist ground against the Democrats and the other you are thought to\nbe the architect --"
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