Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 035-034
Date: Thursday, December 28, 1972 at 3:43 PM
Participants: Kennedy, Richard T. (Col.); Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-034

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:00] I have Colonel Kennedy calling you, sir.
[0:02] Okay.
[0:03] All right.
[0:04] Hello, sir.
[0:06] Yeah.
[0:06] We did get that message.
[0:09] Yeah.
[0:09] And they accept.
[0:10] They did?
[0:11] Yes, sir.
[0:11] Good.
[0:12] So it's the second and then the eighth.
[0:17] Right.
[0:18] And I called Henry.
[0:20] Yeah.
[0:20] And he's going to be calling you.
[0:22] Conditions?
[0:24] None that we hadn't already spoken of.
[0:28] Yeah.
[0:29] Oh, they...
[0:29] What about the bomb halt then?
[0:31] That's the problem, isn't it?
[0:33] Yes, sir.
[0:34] Well, we'll have to go through with that.
[0:35] I mean, starting when?
[0:38] Well, it'll probably, well, it'll have to be tomorrow night.
[0:42] Because we'd announce tomorrow.
[0:45] That's all right.
[0:45] I don't, do you think one extra day makes...
[0:47] It's not going to make any difference, sir.
[0:49] What is today, the 28th or 29th?
[0:53] It'll be tomorrow night, our time.
[0:57] And basically, we would have had to have stopped
[0:59] The night, well, let's see, the night of the 31st, our time.
[1:06] Was when we would have stopped.
[1:08] Right.
[1:10] Well, we're missed two days then, don't we?
[1:12] Well, what the hell.
[1:13] Not really.
[1:14] Because... Just actually a full day.
[1:20] Well, that's good.
[1:21] We wouldn't get much... Well, actually, this is really, from our standpoint...
[1:28] I think a rather significant development.
[1:30] What do you think?
[1:31] Yes, sir, I think so.
[1:32] As I mentioned this morning, you know, if they were going to accept, I must say I couldn't figure out why.
[1:39] Would you tell Henry to call me soon because I'm leaving for Camp David at 4.30?
[1:43] Right.
[1:43] If he's going to call, he better call then because now I'll be leaving this.
[1:49] Right.
[1:49] He said he was going to call very shortly.
[1:51] All right, fine.
[1:52] All right, sir.