Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 023-070
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 1972 at 2:13 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-070
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417193425 (NAID 417193425)

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[0:01] Hello?
[0:02] Mr. Kissinger, sir.
[0:03] Ready?
[0:04] Mr. President?
[0:05] Hi, Henry.
[0:07] Uh, did you talk to Kay Graham?
[0:10] I put him... Yeah, she wasn't there.
[0:12] I called her, and she was out, and I'm waiting for her return call.
[0:15] Fine, fine.
[0:17] We'll see you about 3.15, okay?
[0:20] Okay, we talked to Reagan.
[0:21] He's delighted.
[0:23] Was he?
[0:23] Oh, yeah.
[0:24] Great.
[0:25] He says, just as long as we keep doing the other things.
[0:28] Bombing, right.
[0:29] He understands everything else, not only understanding.
[0:33] And you feel the play, the thing that you're seeing is okay.
[0:36] What is your feeling?
[0:37] Too heavy on Vietnam.
[0:38] Yeah, I know, a little too heavy, but...
[0:41] you couldn't avoid that, could you?
[0:43] No, and I sent the text over to Vorontsov so that he sees I didn't start it.
[0:48] You didn't do a damn thing.
[0:50] As a matter of fact, the president didn't.
[0:52] And that we tried to, but the press is speculating.
[0:55] Put this on the basis of the press speculating on a Vietnam, okay?
[0:59] Right, right, right.
[1:00] But I think we are in great shape.
[1:02] Fine.
[1:03] The press is all calling.
[1:04] I'm not talking to them.
[1:05] Don't, don't, don't call them.
[1:07] Don't talk to them.
[1:08] They're all...
[1:09] They must be out of their goddamn minds.
[1:11] Absolutely.
[1:12] Yeah, three o'clock, as I said, I've got the speech, and we'll go over it with you, and then sleep about it, okay?
[1:20] Right.