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Conversation 310-024

TapeTape 310StartSunday, December 26, 1971 at 11:45 AMEndSunday, December 26, 1971 at 11:52 AMTape start time03:05:14Tape end time03:11:08ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Kissinger, Henry A.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
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On December 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:45 am to 11:52 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 310-024 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 310-24

Date: December 26, 1971
Time: 11:45 am - 11:52 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 17-100; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
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Did you survive it?
Were you in the big house?
Well, that'll be better.
You can get more service there.
Yeah.
Your children with you?
Tell me this, it's raining down there though, isn't it?
Will it stop?
They stopped, it rained yesterday because I called after Hoover down there and it was raining.
You tell your kids to walk to the lighthouse, will you?
Well, they tell them that I always did that when I came to keep this game.
You know, they won't be bothered.
It's a mile and a half walk.
It's the best walk in the world.
They can, you know, pick up the shells.
It's a great fun.
And they can do anything they want.
If it's swimming in the bed, they're hitting it over the other side.
Well, they... Oh, they did.
That's why I was calling to see what kind of a one they get off.
Well, at least that's one day of it, huh?
Well, I think it's a good time to do it, don't you?
On the other side, by the way.
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.
We're going to be awful hard to negotiate with until at this point.
There's no reason to get to go through that business of Paris again.
I'm just out by me.
No, they aren't interested in who did what and whom.
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.
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.
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.
Yes.
That's right.
Correct.
Correct.
This strike will probably not be played in the papers until tomorrow.
This is the one that hits mainly in the geopass area and that sort of place.
Well, that was the purpose for getting there.
You figured you could get some planes, knock out some planes.
than nothing else in the world.
I noticed that our Indian friends are having trouble, aren't they?
They're now admitting that they've got to stay in Bangladesh for a few months, right?
And then also telling Bhutto that he can't claim as part of that.
Well, my God, I think Bhutto screams at the housetops about that.
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