On May 31, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 7:24 pm and 10:26 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 254-033 of the White House Tapes.
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On the long trip, I must have heard one.
Also, when I came back, Marcus Brown abandoned us.
He said that he'd seen the medicine we made, and he'd lied.
And I sent a messenger with a summary of it.
It was a very positive response to the message.
uh...
Well, I rewrote the statement exactly as you said it.
And then, presenting it, I cut it even more.
I really made it faster.
I have never seen such losses in Israel, and I've held them for four years, and I'm really ashamed of it.
Sir, I made my statement.
Usually, in every previous meeting, or every time I've given a go-share, they will definitely say something.
I asked two or three various manufacturers with official questions about the statement.
It was a big sentence.
What I haven't realized is that we are really village proposal givers.
In fact, they have to accept you, the village we will give them.
Prisoners is not a desert.
If you're staying for a matter of the damn prison, the rent they'll give us is that you
to them, that that's why they kept coming.
And I told them that.
They, uh, then, after the break, uh, he, uh, he only described it as so-and-so.
There was none of the hectorate.
There was none of the stuff that he usually gives, that they always give them.
Now, they knew why they asked him.
You will need to repeat the 7th form.
So there is a text on the 7th form.
In question, he said that if I said don't take it as a rejection, I just had to ask the question.
In case your proposal is accepted in general, then next time we shall be prepared to discuss all of the questions.
If it was not accepted, I would agree.
At the end of the meeting, he said, anything that requires a particular rejection,
where he pointed out what the end was, and he would be glad to try to make this totally unusual discovery, what we had to do.
He said we could predict the presentness, and that was the most significant thing, that we could predict the end, throughout.
We sincerely want peace.
Now the only question is, can we do it?
And you should, that's definitely coming down.
The real issue was, he was,
He didn't ask for a coalition government.
He said, well, we should see whether we should use the elections.
He said, I understand that you can't overthrow the government.
He said, but why don't you use the elections to get a new government?
You can use the elections to consider the military issues, but that's just how it is.
You can never create a new government.
That's your only chance.
You can't wait until the end of the world to become the new president for aggressive actions.
I think that there's an
I will not believe that I extremely long.
There is nothing really imminent danger of doing to them.
On this train and along they will do what they did it with.
Make ambiguous statements.
Talk about their aid force that's had an earthly domain.
And they said they needed four weeks to think this over and work on it.
To see what they gained by it.
Seriously, we've now put a deadline on that, but it doesn't really sound reasonably different.
That's what they said.
One of the men I had along was at every meeting of parents.
It wasn't our delegation.
It was everyone's mind.
It was not an emotional matter.
I can't much answer to what you're saying.
In my experience with him, it now goes over four years.
It goes to any language, and I don't get mad at that.
I can still tussle with him, but it's quite easy for the dear to come back over there every week.
As he carried on, I don't exclude him.
A little text, very interesting.
For example, I said to them...
He said it's absurd for you to find others who are no longer a threat to you.
Another two or three years, whatever happens, you'll be too weak to deal with the countries who are no longer a threat to you.
And it's a lie.
That's the same thing about a year ago, they chant all over you.
We want to settle this here.
I'm as stiff as I am, as we have often said.
I'll settle by October 1st.
Then they are determined to draft you next spring.
I've drafted now with the Chinese in your hands.
Everything on one throw is the dice, which they may not make.
I've been able to do a damn thing.
We've not done so much.
At least this week, our 40 spies, and that includes all 33 spies, have died.
It's the second vote.
It's the last.
The next meeting will take place.
And, Mr. President, it's a painful thought.
The meeting was due.
It was a decision for the people.
They have all the views.
It's a decision that we're going to make.
For 20 years, they've lost 700,000 left now.
They've all been getting the American withdrawal.
They're at it in 1959.
I don't think they've accepted it, but I don't agree.
Between this meeting and the previous one, and the previous meeting,
After a proposition I had, as I could accept or reject, we were feeling our way towards a proposition that somebody might make.
We never really made a proposition to them, and they never really came up to us.
We never had been in touch with them.
Since October, just getting to the verge of making propositions, we've been going into it.
Last September, I've acted on a spectacle they were trying to do to us.
I wanted to see whether we had anything to do with it.
The order to do is tell you.
You see, after the next meeting, Mr. President, we will know.
July 4th is on Sunday.
Well, I don't say that until after the 25th.
That week is the 25th.
And you are the driver who sent this in Chinese around 9, 10, I think, the 25th.
The 27th will be the 25th.
We don't have the pleasure of a few of us.
We don't have the pleasure of a few of us.
We are negotiating.
This is the only time in the four years that we have ever talked like negotiating.
Yeah.
But that they can bring themselves to do it, I don't know.
But that toughness, it is.
And I know that laws, I think, work them more than we do.
Mr. Bremen, if I had made this proposition in the last year, it would have been beyond zero.
But this might be worth your reading, because you'll get a sense of the use of every word written down.
No, they wanted to string us along.
That is not the way they were doing it.
They sent the other six clones.
We will give them a date.
I tell them now, we will give them a date.
That date that I said was going to be that, the only subject.
Then, for example, they said, you're going to give us a short date.
I said, I'm going to tell you what we're going to give you.
They should get everybody out in two months.
I said, no, no, no.
I said, no, no, no.
I said, no, no, no.
I said, no, no, no.
I said, no, no, no.
It's another year in South Vietnam, as you see in South Africa, as they continue fighting.
You know, they have two choices, either to settle now, or to crack us next year.
They're two in one.
They try to pick pushers in most of the leaders' positions, and of course, it's that idea, if we do the right thing, if we keep our army positive, they'll do the right thing.
I think that's what they are, but they cover three partners,
And at this stage, it's not an office.
Do you want to withdraw the marriage?
Well, because it's a logistic thing.
What does he mean?
He doesn't want it.
Because now, because if he doesn't,
They don't come through because they're sorry for the people who take care of them.
What does it have to do with the Japanese?
They're forgetting Chinese now from Vietnam.
Yes or no?
No, it's going to be nothing.
So I said, well, I haven't been through it because I thought that it wasn't good.
And I let them know.
I said, could they do this when they're in real trouble, I think.
I've got to send some of that back, but I don't know.
I've got to make sure they let me come on the 27th.
I'd love to.
It's just that the 27th was assured that, you know, I'm going to get there.
Maybe tomorrow, get the date.
I'm going to get the date.
I'm going to get the date.
I'm going to get the date.
I'm going to get the date.
The thing, of course, Henry didn't die.
He's the only one who stayed with everybody here in the palace.
So it's often said that he was the only one who stayed in the city.
So if you do not feel the secretaries, it's the way you feel it.
It's all Trump.
You see, that's what this game is all about.
That's why salt, basically, was at the highest level.
And that is why China will be at the highest level.
Look, for Christ's sake, the Chinese foreign minister, if you're sitting down, you need to go to the side of God.
And the Chinese foreign minister was treated first.
And there's another side of this question.
The State Department would think that he's talking 50 times over however many times it was told.
Every time we draft one of these cables, we've got them back with accidents.
You talk about big fish, and you've got it.
And we've got these people.
Well, we've got it all solved.
We have solved Berlin, China, summit, Vietnam.
I'm not saying Vietnam is going to work.
It probably will not.
But this is the closest the negotiation has ever been.
The closest it's ever been, Mr. President.
Yes.
If we get the China offer,
They will not have done it.
The new question we have to decide not today.
We are not, but we have not, embarrassing the British.
No.
This is our real problem.
It's such a way that they support each other.
Is it better to announce the silence before the Chinese clock or after the Chinese clock?
It's better to announce it in Chinese every day of the year.
and put that out to Professor Thorne, I hope, and they want to play it for next year, so if you guys have food, that's not a bad problem.
However, you might want to consider we don't have to settle it, certainly not.
It's time to talk before one drinks, and if somebody doesn't come through, it's best to have some Chinese something to drink for next year.
How do you share this?
Once it's announced, it's as good as... No, we're on a high-level relationship.
If you start at a good pace, the next year I would have full confidence in you.
And let it all go the next year.
And this year, something we can't go through this year without someone to do it.
Well, we've got to do it.
We've got to find one else.
We've got to do it now.
We've got to do it.
It's more likely.
that you get all three of them, that you get something in between, but we can't work it out.
Let me say, I wouldn't mind having a Russian relationship.
Well, it is everything that's there.
It's not a bad trade, because it risks salt and a lot of other things.
It's the Russians.
I didn't solve it.
I just resolved it.
But some of it under our belt.
Some of it has spread to the dead.
I don't expect they can make a deal with me.
Bruce and I were pretty well part of those.
They helped us out a bit.
But I was on the basis of what they did.
And it was most of the people around.
They had the objective vanity of a man like Miles Gillian.
And I was the one who did it.
You had said on January 29th that you were seeking a go-to-mark car against all and said it was a good idea.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.