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President: If we can pull it off and get the bill, it is the best thing we can do.
Kissinger: Next week you will be hit with a recommendation for export controls. I would like a chance to comment.
President: I notice the Japanese are buying heavily.
Kissinger: That is he problem. It leads to scare buying -- like surpluses. Commodities are one of our big foreign policy tools.
President: Who is for it?
Kissinger: Not Butz. I think OMB and Treasury.
I will have a paper for you on Monday. I want to ensure it won't be decided on domestic grounds alone.
President: It won't be.
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