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    "ocrText": "Y-15\nTelecon\nThe President\n9/17/70 9:45 a. m.\nK: I wanted to mention a piece of information connected with\nVietnam. The Viet Cong made a proposal\nP: I just called Bill and told him you and I had talked. His point\nis well taken too--at the present time we want our moves to be open\nbut we don't want Jordan to look like a puppet. I am not too xk sure\non that; I'm more interested in the effect on the Russians than on\nIraq and Syria.\nK: The aircraft carrier Guam was supposed to leave Friday\nmorning, but instead we are moving it out Thursday night.\nP: From where?\nK: Norfolk.\nP: Let's get them out. If we are going in for a strike it is not\ngoing to be for nothing. We've got enough 52s with bombs in Europe,\ndon't we?\nK: No, but we can get them over.\nP: Okay. I don't see this as just an exercise. If we hit we hit with\neverything we've got. I want a plan available so it's a massive strike--\nit's mainly psychological. Okay, go ahead with Paris.\nK: One other thing in connection with the Middle East first.\nMoorer says we could get a third carrier in within a week.\nIt\nwould be a strong move.\nP: Put it in. We're going there; I want to see a formidable display\nout there anyway.\nK: Okay. About Vietnam, the Viet Cong have made some proposals\ntoday that are still not in acceptable form to us but do conform to what\nthey saidto me. If we were to promise withdrawal by June 30, they say\nthey would stop military action against them. a sort of half-baked\ncease-fire proposal; it means they would give up their 6-month deadline.\nAlso they are notssaying they will deal with any Saigon government that\ndoesn't include Thieu, Ky and Thiem. We still have the problem that\nyou identified but before they said they wouldn't negotiate with anybody.\nThey just may not be able to make a proposal we can accept."
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