Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 169-013
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 1973 at 9:27 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Camp David Study Table
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/169-013

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[0:00] Yeah, Mr. President.
[0:02] Hi, Henry.
[0:03] I wondered if you might chat with the brain minister how we are working.
[0:09] Yeah, I was just picking up the phone to call him.
[0:13] Fine.
[0:13] Yeah, go ahead.
[0:14] Okay.
[0:15] As long as I have you on the phone, I wanted to ask you, we have Bresnett's car here, and we were going to give it to him.
[0:22] We have the keys and everything.
[0:23] Good.
[0:24] And I wondered whether you wanted to do that personally.
[0:27] Sure.
[0:28] Or whether we...
[0:30] Yeah.
[0:34] Let somebody give him the keys.
[0:37] Has he seen it?
[0:38] He hasn't seen it.
[0:39] Well, then I'll show it to him.
[0:41] No, let me do it.
[0:41] I can never be a nice individual.
[0:43] Well, that's what I thought.
[0:45] I'll see Dabrina now, and I'll call you, and I'll come by then as soon as I've seen it.
[0:50] What we would like, what I would like.
[0:52] I mean, we've got to have some time for the four of us to work out those, try to work out those two.
[1:00] any other points that they want to discuss.
[1:02] Right.
[1:03] And the, you know, the interpretation of the agreement and so forth, particularly the, uh, bodies agreement.
[1:10] Then I've got to have some time with him alone because he wants that.
[1:13] Right.
[1:13] And then I guess we've got to have some time for the plenary business, right?
[1:17] Right.
[1:18] With brother, we can do that at dinner.
[1:22] Mm-hmm.
[1:23] I think so, yeah.
[1:25] You mean with, uh, well, I think, I don't know, we could start
[1:29] Or you can start alone with Presniff and call for the rest of us.
[1:35] Yeah, but I... Well, you see, we need...
[1:39] We need three different groups, though.
[1:41] That's right.
[1:42] And so I don't want to call for all the rest of you if I do.
[1:45] Right.
[1:46] But one thing, one way to do it, Mr. President, would be for the four of us to get together first, get this business done, which shouldn't take long.
[1:55] Then Dobrynin and I leave you, and you could be alone with Presnev.
[2:01] Right.
[2:02] And then in the afternoon, you could have a one-hour sort of plenary-type session.
[2:09] Yeah.
[2:11] Or we could just have an hour this morning getting the business done.
[2:15] Then you could meet with President this afternoon alone first and then call for everybody.
[2:22] Yeah, yeah.
[2:26] Okay, fine.
[2:27] That's fine.
[2:28] That's fine.
[2:29] Let's see, it's now, what, 930?
[2:30] Yeah, he's not yet.
[2:32] Oh, good, good, good.
[2:33] I'm in order, I mean, sit around here.
[2:37] But I'll send you over that paper now that states what remains to be done.
[2:42] Yeah.
[2:43] And, uh, the, uh...
[2:50] Don't alert Rita to the fact that I'm up or anything, you know.
[2:54] Well, I'm up, but I mean that we're in a hurry.
[2:57] Oh, no.
[2:58] Okay.
[2:58] Right.