Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 311-041 Date: Sunday, January 2, 1972 at 12:39 PM Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A. Recording device: Old Executive Office Building Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/311-041 This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite it as authoritative. [2:16:24] Hello. [2:16:24] Yeah. [2:16:24] Hello. [2:16:26] But one thing about our wings tonight, I want to change the, you know, where the rod is. [2:16:31] Therefore, we have all this part of the curtain and, you know, the friction. [2:16:35] We're going to have that, the way we're going to do it is we're going to have all these two wires, you know, four of each other. [2:17:21] Bye bye, ain't no spare today. [2:18:18] Søren, takk for i dag. [2:18:20] Ha det bra. [2:18:58] Hello? [2:19:00] Hello? [2:19:02] When do you leave for California? [2:19:20] So you're going out with us? [2:19:31] Oh, I see. [2:19:35] Oh, I see. [2:19:35] I know you're going to go out there at 5.30. [2:19:39] But I'm not going for 5.30. [2:19:42] Go out with us if you want. [2:19:50] All right. [2:19:55] Fine, fine. [2:19:55] Yeah. [2:19:55] All right. [2:19:56] Go ahead. [2:19:56] Okay, on this... [2:20:17] I don't understand how to answer all the Laos questions if you don't have any comments, you know, there, etc. [2:20:23] But I understand that it began long before, in the last, and they might add to our Laos national podium. [2:20:28] So, how does the country stick on that? [2:20:30] What can I do? [2:20:32] The question is, what are we talking about? [2:20:36] It's gone. [2:20:37] In the city. [2:20:40] In the city, because you have a city in the city. [2:20:46] The separation of South Vietnam and the rest of the Indian infiltration was justified on the basis of the repressions of the Americans. [2:20:58] The problem, of course, is this. [2:20:58] To what extent are we going to commit ourselves for the protests in Cambodia and the events in Laos as distinct from the Vietnam and Vietnamization? [2:21:09] That's the critical question that many smart guys will ask.