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Conversation 145-023

TapeTape 145StartMonday, October 2, 1972 at 8:51 PMEndMonday, October 2, 1972 at 8:52 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Kissinger, Henry A.Recording deviceCamp David Study Table
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On October 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David from 8:51 pm to 8:52 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 145-023 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 145-23

Date: October 2, 1972
Time: 8:51 pm - 8:52 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 214-36]

             Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                  -Kissinger’s negotiation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                      -The President’s position
                          -Cambodian bombing
                          -Previous US-Soviet Union summit
                          -The President’s policies
                                -1972 election
                                -Tone
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Oh, one point I did not make.
Are you there?
I'm with the Foreign Ministry.
I wanted you to be sure to get across the point that I had failed to point out that I wouldn't want to say it, but you should point out that, after all, when very much was at stake, that I made the decision on Cambodia, and something that I considered the most vital thing in this administration, the meeting with the
you know at the summit that I did what was necessary and that now when frankly we have no election problems or anything else that they just got to assume that we don't want it that the president doesn't like to lay down all the mediums he won't but you must never underestimate what he's going to do exactly I could say that I think you see the idea that
We talked softly, but don't underestimate it.
Don't you think you should say that?
I will say it.
If you could convey that time to him, okay?
Absolutely, I'll make that point.
Okay, fine.
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