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Conversation 316-018

TapeTape 316StartTuesday, January 25, 1972 at 5:32 PMEndTuesday, January 25, 1972 at 6:32 PMTape start time02:55:04Tape end time03:00:52ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose Mary;  Acker, Marjorie P.;  White House operator;  Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AudioNARA Description

On January 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Marjorie P. Acker, White House operator, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:32 pm and 6:32 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 316-018 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 316-18

Date: January 25, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:32 pm and 6:38 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
          -Changes
               -Henry A. Kissinger's views
               -Public text
               -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Haig
            -Call to the President

                -Interruption of meeting
                      -Marjorie P. Acker

[Woods talked with Acker at an unknown time between 5:32 pm and 6:31 pm.]

[Conversation No. 316-18A]

                           -Request

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President's forthcoming speech
          -Date mentioned in text

[The White House operator talked with Woods at 6:31 pm.]

[Conversation No. 316-18B]

[See Conversation No. 19-61]

[Haig talked with the President between 6:31 pm and 6:34 pm.]

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President's forthcoming speech
          -Changes

     Woods's schedule
         -Wiley T. Buchanan
         -The President’s forthcoming speech
         -Buchanan’s schedule
               -Denmark
         -Call To Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

     Denmark
         -State funeral
               -Buchanan
               -John S. D. Eisenhower

Woods left at 6:38 pm.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Problem?
Had to add something back in.
I did too big, so I'll put it down.
I'll show you what it was.
The test center said the question, that you have to put it in projection.
That's right.
Unless you have something you want me to write on anywhere.
And we need to take out the word company.
I have to get your company.
No, that isn't supposed to be here.
Oh, I see.
But you're going to say it more.
OK, all right.
It's not in the public text.
Not in this text.
They aren't supposed to see that.
Well, that is public.
I'll take those pages out for you.
One of them will be in the menu.
I could probably go in a meeting and have him step out and call you.
Or have lunch with you.
Yeah, I'd better tell you to call him.
Would you go in that meeting and have Al, hey, step out and call Senator?
On November 17th, just three days before, November 20th, yeah.
Well, that's pretty much it.
With regard to this thing he wants to put out there, when he says he was willing to begin implementing certain military aspects while negotiating the situation and the implementation of other issues, he means there, if not, is that he would be willing to begin implementing certain military aspects such as the withdrawal of our forces and the escape and the release from the war and the war.
I had quite a question, but I didn't have any reason for not saying that.
Willing to begin with, there is the right way in which we need to be willing to begin from any certain number of factors, such as withdrawal, enforcement, and return to prison before, while negotiations continue in the face of other issues, such as the people who are in our department, or the law enforcement, etc.
But the point that I ask is whether or not I can say that we would be willing to begin from any certain military aspects,
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