On January 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:57 am to 11:19 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 311-014 of the White House Tapes.
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Well, yeah, how are you feeling today?
Uh-huh.
You are now?
Right, right.
Okay, well, anything new?
It's good.
Oh, I read the paper.
Is that it?
All the hell with that.
And he's just trying to drive the British to a too hard barge.
Well, I don't know.
I suppose that's what we're talking about.
It's not all that funny, yeah.
Yeah.
Help keep with the entries.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, never talk to the mentor.
Let the person be the mentor.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
There's nobody now.
I just noticed there's a guy in here.
He's from the park.
Okay.
I think the answer should simply be very low.
It's pretty sure to talk about that.
It's not about how we say it.
We should just say it's a premature process.
And not go into it as long as it's a burden.
I don't think we ought to hang on to any of what might get us to Pakistan and all the rest.
I don't think we should reject it, but...
I don't think we ought to hang on to it, but I'm sure we have to be determined.
Only if you're in Russia, that's what I recommend.
Buta, Russia has to be determined.
He's really an all-out Indian lover.
We're kidding him.
The other place.
We're kidding him.
He probably knows there's a problem.
But it's difficult.
You know, the Indians just smother you out there with the cops, you know, and all their devious trickies when they are really something, you know,
The most difficult questions that I'm going to have are going to be on Vietnam, not in terms of bombing, so that's no problem, but in terms of EOW and what it is and so forth.
We're now coming to the moment of truth.
Why don't you talk a little bit about how we can say something on this without saying anything, unless you have a problem?
I don't, it isn't a question now where we can go back and argue about what a good job we've done when I ran this company.
And I'll make that point, of course.
I guess we've withdrawn $400, and our tax rate is down.
We've made a peace offer, and... Just say that, but that, of course, won't answer your question about what do you want to do about it.
We all look over and have a bit...
They don't stop there.
All the rockers have been turned down.
They don't start to play in a booth.
With that, because there's still basically patriots who are not working out in the national audience.
Putting it in turn.
Oh, he's shooting his thing.
There you have it.
The thing, the fact that we've got here, is it wasn't wheeled.
And there's one where it is.
We are in a position now where we can just wheel it up like we did in November of 69.
We said it's time to go on and see
It can't be done.
It can't be done in terms of data.
We're in a different period.
Be that as it may, the question of air quality and how long it's used is so important.
The point is that we get back fundamentally to the question that everybody knows when it comes to an election.
And then the question is not how much we can reduce American territories and how many less Americans there are there, but did we not hand in American involvement to see that work?
But it does not steal some air column.
It doesn't do that.
It's just the fact that it's the war.
You see?
Maybe, uh...
The media puts it in terms of the continuation of the war.
Now, I don't think you could say that you could just do the air car for four or five years.
That means something that's not going to work for real.
That means that then you would fail, and that would mean that you would break the war, and then that would...
Basically so that we have a way to just take the issue out of the media for about three months.
It would be a very, very clever move if we could do it.
The bombing halt was a totally political move.
It's a question, though, that anything may change.
Maybe 1%, but that's all we're talking about here.
So, yes, there are people who would be positive about this, and we are defensive, and I'll thank you very much.
We don't have an answer right now, but the date is about to work.
The date for the next announcement, we're talking to Hall and he's going to make us a report later today.
We've got to work it out in terms of how he's going to make an announcement.
I don't want to go too close to that, and I have to.
I don't expect to report again, but I might have to go over.
You might have to consider that early.
You have to get in the independent box, you know, by your own country.
The other reason you have to do it, I cannot have it left at the time you say you're doing it.
Because I can't get up in the morning, and when you say you're doing it, that's something I'm getting on for that time.
I will have to spend a good part of my time on it there.
It has to be done before then.
So you're there, and you don't have to make a big amount of money.
You just make an announcement.
And whenever you put it out, you put it out the 20th second that I'm on your board.
You don't have to make a big amount of money.
You just make an announcement.
For the week, whatever the case might be, you don't have to make that much money.
So it's for the sake of you.
So that's the way it is to be funny.
And, uh...
Ok, we'll...
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