Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 020-090
Date: Sunday, February 13, 1972 at 7:37 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-090

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[0:03] Thank you.
[0:07] There you are.
[0:07] Hello.
[0:08] Mr. President.
[0:09] Yeah, hi.
[0:09] How are you?
[0:09] Sorry to disturb you.
[0:10] Right.
[0:11] But I thought you might like to know that the North Vietnamese have asked Walter to come in tomorrow for a message, which is the first time they've taken the initiative.
[0:22] Yeah.
[0:22] Uh-huh.
[0:22] You know, I have no idea what it is.
[0:26] Maybe they're just going to object to the bombing.
[0:27] No.
[0:28] Oh, no, Mr. President.
[0:30] I don't think this bombing is so much of a problem.
[0:33] In fact, I don't think it's any problem.
[0:36] Well, it's in South Vietnam.
[0:37] That's right.
[0:37] But they've called him to come in, huh?
[0:39] And it's got practically no president.
[0:45] Yeah.
[0:45] Very interesting.
[0:45] Well, when will he get it?
[0:46] He'll go in tomorrow?
[0:48] He'll get it at 10 o'clock our time.
[0:50] Well, that'll be very interesting.
[0:53] But, you know, it may be an offensive move.
[0:55] They may ask for a meeting out there.
[0:59] You mean in Yacht?
[1:00] I don't know where.
[1:02] I don't want to speculate, but it's a rare move on their part.
[1:08] Or they just may want to make a point to condemn us for releasing Dext and so forth.
[1:15] But you never know.
[1:15] Not on this kind of a thing.
[1:17] They've done all that publicly.
[1:18] I mean, they've done that publicly.
[1:20] I don't see any sense in their doing it privately.
[1:22] Right.
[1:23] Right.
[1:24] Good.
[1:25] I don't think it's going to be vilification.
[1:27] It may be some sort of a move.
[1:29] uh maybe they'll release the transcript of the meeting but they won't hurt us oh sir and maybe they'll uh that's pretty good guess that they might want to do that i doubt it but that would i don't think call them in to do that i think they just do it i mean after all they released the transfer they released the text they haven't even released all the text here of what we are but yeah
[1:59] They haven't released the August 16th or the May 31st proposal yet.
[2:05] And what they did release, they released without checking with us.
[2:10] Sure.
[2:10] That's what they would do in any event.
[2:13] Yeah.
[2:13] Okay.
[2:14] Okay.
[2:14] But I thought you might like to know.
[2:15] Very interesting.
[2:16] I'm having breakfast with Layard, Mr. Dresden, and I was going to mention that Hayes promoted to him.
[2:22] Sure.
[2:23] Right ahead.
[2:24] May I say that I've discussed this with you?
[2:26] Yep.
[2:26] Yep.
[2:27] And that's going to be done.
[2:28] right right and i think uh just be sure he's uh totally on salvo with what we're doing here okay