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Kissinger?]\n\n     Press conference\n           -Two China policy\n                -[Forename unknown] Stevenson\n                -Taiwan’s membership in the United Nations\n           -Vietnam\n                -Cambodia\n                -US military efforts\n                -South Vietnamese\n                     -Military operations\n                -Herbert G. Klein\n                -1968 election\n           -China","filename":["256a.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:30:28","tapeEnd":"00:36:03","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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