Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 006-040
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1971 at 9:23 AM
Participants: Kissinger, Henry A.; Dobrynin, Anatoliy F.; Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-040

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Hello.
[0:02] Hello, Anatole.
[0:03] Yeah.
[0:03] Come on, Henry.
[0:04] How are you?
[0:04] I'm sitting here with the president.
[0:06] Yes.
[0:07] And he wanted me to express to you personally his sorrow at what happened with the cosmonauts.
[0:16] Well, thank you very much.
[0:17] We will send over a formal message to your president.
[0:22] Yes, sir.
[0:24] But he wanted me to.
[0:25] Thank you very much.
[0:26] Make sure, in fact, the President wants to say a word to you himself.
[0:30] Yes.
[0:31] Thank you very much.
[0:33] Hello.
[0:34] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:35] I wanted you to know that this message is not just the usual one.
[0:38] I dictated it myself and that, interestingly enough, my daughter Julie is in Athens, you know, and she called me on the phone, got me up at 7.30 this morning to say that she had just heard it.
[0:51] So we just want you to know that wherever brave men are in the world, our deepest sympathy goes to them and
[0:57] we know that uh that your program will continue as ours will you remember we had three that were lost to one time yes but we just want you to know that this is uh this is from the heart message to my government we will the thing that you can you can point out to your government that as i said that are my daughter called and these little personal things we won't put out
[1:20] in our formal message, but I want you to know that.
[1:23] And I really do appreciate it.
[1:25] Thank you very much.
[1:25] Fine.
[1:27] Thank you.