Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 034-128
Date: Monday, December 18, 1972 at 1:17 PM
Participants: Kissinger, Henry A.; Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-128

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:01] Mr. Kissinger calling you.
[0:02] You are.
[0:06] Hello.
[0:06] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:07] Hello, Henry.
[0:07] Hi.
[0:08] I just want you to know the second wave got out and only one plane damaged.
[0:14] Yeah.
[0:14] Good.
[0:15] It got back.
[0:16] They think it certainly will get out of North Vietnam.
[0:20] Whether it will crash on the way, they don't know.
[0:24] But it will almost certainly get back.
[0:28] And...
[0:31] The only news reporting is that TASS—they must have gotten it from the embassy—is reporting a massive raid on Hanoi with large fires just north of it, which is what we were aiming at.
[0:43] That was the marshaling yard, isn't it?
[0:45] That's right.
[0:49] That's right.
[0:49] Well, it's a calling card.
[0:50] They won't forget.
[0:51] No, no, they won't forget it.
[0:53] We'll see whether it's worth remembering.
[0:57] Well, we were trapped the other way.
[1:00] No choice.
[1:01] No choice.
[1:02] That was the problem.
[1:05] Okay.
[1:05] Right, I thought you wanted... Oh, yeah.
[1:07] There won't be anything then.