Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 321-029
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 1972 at 4:56 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/321-029

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:22] Yeah.
[0:22] Hello.
[0:22] I suppose you're with your friend right now, huh?
[0:23] Well, let me figure it out.
[0:24] I was wondering about the, you know, they remember the question about, was there a renunciation of force?
[0:26] If I could find even, put it this way, I do not expect the use of force on either side of the island space.
[0:29] No, I don't want to say anything.
[0:53] I just wouldn't answer it correctly.
[0:54] I don't anticipate it would be important.
[0:55] Well, the better thing, then, is to just say, I don't want to, I just, that question might come.
[0:57] I think you might say that we've stayed in a position where...
[0:58] Now, let's see.
[1:27] I think that's a very clever way to handle it, to say the prospect, with the prospect of a peaceful settlement in mind, that it was carefully chosen, and I won't go beyond that.
[1:54] I don't want to lose you, but I have my approval.
[1:58] Okay.
[2:21] Just say that I don't have my approval, but that's my order.
[2:22] I'm not going to screw around any more.
[2:23] Well, you'll do a hell of a job, and you have my confidence.
[2:24] And, uh... Yeah, I'll find a way to do the same.
[2:25] Uh, this, uh...
[2:25] I know there's one thing we did not include.
[2:26] I was taking out the pages, you know, that they had given.
[2:28] I know it's one thing he did not include, but they had in his draft.
[2:59] Well, I meant, that's a long line to what he's raising.
[3:25] But I don't think I ever heard that raised.
[3:31] OK. All right.
[3:45] Thank you.
[3:59] Thank you.