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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President/Kissinger\n5-4-70\n8:20 p. .m.\nK: Mr. President\nP: Henry\nK: I just got back a little while ago from the Soviet Embassy and I think we\nhave their attention. They were falling all over me. That fellow Arbatov,\nwho is close to Brezhnev said, \"What did you think of the Kosygin statement? 11\nI said we expected criticism. He said, \"We wouldn't break off SALT talks,\nwe if you keep bombing 9 we may have to. \" I said we need some serious\ndiscussions. The atmosphere was very, very cordial and they wouldn't do\nthat unless they were under instructions. Dobrynin will be back next week.\nP: When he gets back, let's get going on this track now before it's too late.\nK: I said you are a great country and what we do in Cambodia has nothing to do\nwith you. It doesn't affect our relationship unless you want it to. They know this\nis cynical but they understand the message. If they had wanted to show dis-\nsatisfaction, I wouldn't have been invited and they wouldn't have fallen all\nover me. I think the old game plan can still work quite well.\nP: We have to play the old game plan.\nK: When the uproar is over the other side has shot its wad. We will have a\nrough two or three weeks. Even that channel active later this summer (?).\nP: That's the channel we will use.\nK: They wanted reassurance\no\nthey were worried. I was friendly and said\neverything we have said to you still goes. They understand.\nP: Anybody from State there?\nK: No one from State. They have now done what they are going to. May say\na few things at the UN and Dobrynin may come back with some sort of nasty\nmessage.\nP: We gave them a nasty message on Czechoslovakia. We can expect one on\nthis. That shouldn't allow them to break off relations.\nK: They wanted reassurance there wouldn't be toughening. When people say\nwe scared Hanoi off negotiations\nHanoi started with military\nright\noff. The mood there was one to keep relations. I am giving a lunch here for\nthree Soviet characters on Wednesday. During Johnson they never accepted.\nThere was a freeze on this."
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