Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 310-024
Date: Sunday, December 26, 1971 at 11:45 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/310-024

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[3:07:49] Did you survive it?
[3:07:51] Were you in the big house?
[3:08:13] Well, that'll be better.
[3:08:14] You can get more service there.
[3:08:17] Yeah.
[3:08:17] Your children with you?
[3:08:20] Tell me this, it's raining down there though, isn't it?
[3:08:25] Will it stop?
[3:08:29] They stopped, it rained yesterday because I called after Hoover down there and it was raining.
[3:08:41] You tell your kids to walk to the lighthouse, will you?
[3:08:45] Well, they tell them that I always did that when I came to keep this game.
[3:08:48] You know, they won't be bothered.
[3:08:49] It's a mile and a half walk.
[3:08:51] It's the best walk in the world.
[3:08:53] They can, you know, pick up the shells.
[3:08:55] It's a great fun.
[3:08:57] And they can do anything they want.
[3:08:59] If it's swimming in the bed, they're hitting it over the other side.
[3:09:06] Well, they... Oh, they did.
[3:09:07] That's why I was calling to see what kind of a one they get off.
[3:09:16] Well, at least that's one day of it, huh?
[3:09:24] Well, I think it's a good time to do it, don't you?
[3:09:26] On the other side, by the way.
[3:09:36] Well, there, I think they're really, if your analysis may be correct, you know, they may be getting, trying to get to a bargaining position.
[3:09:50] We're going to be awful hard to negotiate with until at this point.
[3:09:53] There's no reason to get to go through that business of Paris again.
[3:09:58] I'm just out by me.
[3:10:04] No, they aren't interested in who did what and whom.
[3:10:06] They're only interested in, well, you remember, now is the time to have the benefit of what we did in October of 69, 70.
[3:10:12] Just put out a new peace plan, and then they will get a big play, and they will say they'll not answer it, and that's that.
[3:10:27] I would simply, without going into detail, I would simply say we have had 10 or 15 private meetings on this, and Matt has presented this all to them, and this is our offer.
[3:10:41] Yes.
[3:10:43] That's right.
[3:10:48] Correct.
[3:10:51] Correct.
[3:10:51] This strike will probably not be played in the papers until tomorrow.
[3:11:02] This is the one that hits mainly in the geopass area and that sort of place.
[3:11:07] Well, that was the purpose for getting there.
[3:11:16] You figured you could get some planes, knock out some planes.
[3:11:25] than nothing else in the world.
[3:11:27] I noticed that our Indian friends are having trouble, aren't they?
[3:11:31] They're now admitting that they've got to stay in Bangladesh for a few months, right?
[3:11:40] And then also telling Bhutto that he can't claim as part of that.
[3:11:43] Well, my God, I think Bhutto screams at the housetops about that.