Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 022-053
Date: Thursday, March 30, 1972 at 12:45 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-053
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417193071 (NAID 417193071)

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[0:00] I have Dr. Kissinger.
[0:03] Mr. President.
[0:04] Yes, I know where you are.
[0:07] I was going to say that I just read the morning brief and this is said for obvious reasons at this point that I'm very much concerned by what I think is a breach of what we understood was going to be the activity there and that I think you need to know that
[0:29] As far as I'm concerned, the reaction must be swift and it's going to be very, it has to be, it isn't going to be tit for tat.
[0:42] And I think that that has to be very clearly understood.
[0:46] The difficulty with this is that it could seriously jeopardize what I had thought was
[0:52] a very good understanding that we had.
[0:55] You know, my correspondence with the chairman and the conversation I had with DeBrennan, and I just think it's very difficult to understand that they would allow this sort of thing at this point to jeopardize what we're trying to do.
[1:12] Well, this is tremendously helpful, and I'll be sure to make that.
[1:16] All right.
[1:17] Bye-bye.