{"conversationCode":"330-036","tapeNumber":330,"conversationNumber":36,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-330-036","startDateTime":"1972-04-12T19:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-12T20:09:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Apr-1972","startTime":"2:47 PM","endDate":"12-Apr-1972","endTime":"3:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Huebner, Lee W.;","description":"On April 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Lee W. Huebner met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:47 pm to 3:09 pm. 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Dobrynin\n                  -Consultations\n            -Soviet Union\n                  -Relations with North Vietnam\n                        -Military equipment\n                        -Propositions\n                        -Negotiations\n                        -Hanoi’s interest in summit\n                  -Message to the President from Dobrynin\n                        -Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin\n                        -Kissinger’s meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev\n                              -Secrecy\n                              -Message to Hanoi\n\n       Kissinger's schedule\n             -Postponed meeting\n\n       Vietnam\n\n-Soviet Union\n      -People's Republic of China [PRC]\n             -Reactions to US-Soviet relations\n      -Kissinger’s message to Soviets\n             -Appearances\n             -Kissinger’s trip\n                   -Secrecy\n                          -Guarantees\n                                -Kissinger’s trip to Soviet Union\n                          -Brezhnev\n                          -William P. Rogers\n                          -Soviet Summit\n      -Influence with Hanoi\n      -Reaction to US attacks\n             -Kissinger’s message to Brezhnev\n                   -US military effort\n                   -Secrecy\n                   -Effect on Hanoi\n      -Irini N. Dobrynin's visit with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon\n             -Letter from Mrs. Dobrynin to Viktoriya Brezhnev\n      -Soviet attitudes\n             -Desire to discontinue summit\n             -Brezhnev's statements to Kissinger\n                   -Comments concerning the President\n                   -India\n      -Kissinger’s trip\n             -Negotiations with Hanoi\n                   -Aid\n                   -US election\n                   -Dobrynin\n                   -Advisability\n             -Negotiations with Soviets\n                   -The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union\n                   -US limitations\n                   -Soviet summit\n      -Soviet requests\n             -The President's Canadian speech\n             -Message to the President\n                   -The President's response to Dobrynin\n                          -Camp David\n                          -The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union\n-The President's Canadian trip\n\n             -Domestic problems\n             -PRC\n             -Democrats\n                  -Edward M. Kennedy\n             -Cessation of war\n                  -Chances\n\nAlexander P. Butterfield and Lee W. Huebner entered at an unknown time after 2:47 pm.\n\n       The President's Canadian speech\n            -Changes\n                  -Kissinger's approval\n                        -Wording of a sentence\n\nKissinger left at 3:01 pm.\n\n             -Wording of a sentence\n             -Tone\n                   -Change\n             -Wording\n                   -Changes\n                         -Further work\n                         -National Security Council [NSC] considerations\n             -A copy\n                   -Retyping\n                   -Further work\n             -Changes\n                   -Consistency\n                         -Compared with a speech at a conference\n             -Copies\n                   -Retyping\n                         -Rose Mary Woods\n                   -Sentences\n                         -Shortening\n                         -Tone\n                   -Distribution\n                   -Work at Camp David\n                         -Huebner's schedule\n                               -Completion of speech\n\n       Butterfield's schedule\n             -Camp David\n\n                  -Haldeman\n             -Arrangements for Huebner\n                  -Secretary\n                  -Typewriters\n\nButterfield and Huebner left at 3:09 pm.","filename":["330a.mp3","330b.mp3","330c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:01:59","tapeEnd":"04:21:55","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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them."},{"start":14681.12,"end":14681.42,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14681.6,"end":14681.82,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14682.04,"end":14682.26,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14682.3,"end":14682.46,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14682.54,"end":14682.86,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14683.02,"end":14683.14,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14683.22,"end":14683.84,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14683.92,"end":14684.2,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14684.24,"end":14684.48,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14684.52,"end":14684.8,"text":"Ja."},{"start":14709.4,"end":14721.3,"text":"Oh, fine, fine."},{"start":14721.4,"end":14725.32,"text":"You can pick those things up and open them."},{"start":14725.34,"end":14725.66,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":14827.36,"end":14827.9,"text":"Now he's blubbered."},{"start":14827.98,"end":14829.65,"text":"He says, one, what can I show you?"},{"start":14832.31,"end":14836.19,"text":"This way, before he gets back to Moscow."},{"start":14836.21,"end":14836.43,"text":"This way."},{"start":14836.45,"end":14837.13,"text":"This is communication."},{"start":14837.15,"end":14839.01,"text":"Second, what can I show you?"},{"start":14839.27,"end":14848.95,"text":"It's the most urgent touch right now."},{"start":14850.13,"end":14855.08,"text":"He said they have a terrible problem."},{"start":14855.46,"end":14858.72,"text":"For one time religion is good."},{"start":14858.78,"end":14867.39,"text":"He said, he doesn't give me the bullshit about peace, how tough, when he doesn't play, he's put upon, and he's serious."},{"start":14867.45,"end":14873.35,"text":"He said, let's not assess blame, let's not, let's not do anything, let's just ask ourselves what can be done."},{"start":14873.37,"end":14880.2,"text":"He says, we can't turn, we can't turn them off,"},{"start":14881.23,"end":14891.29,"text":"From one day to the next evening, he will activate the other veterinary specimens, which is very interesting."},{"start":14891.31,"end":14892.75,"text":"It will take three months to take effect."},{"start":14892.77,"end":14899.36,"text":"He said, we'll catch them, they are only 24."},{"start":14899.46,"end":14903.46,"text":"Even though you can't do this, that's what he said."},{"start":14903.48,"end":14904.2,"text":"He said, that he's not sure."},{"start":14904.22,"end":14905.3,"text":"Or he thinks he's not sure."},{"start":14905.32,"end":14908.68,"text":"He said, however, they have markups, and right now, all technicians are known."},{"start":14908.7,"end":14908.92,"text":"There's, uh,"},{"start":14910.55,"end":14916.82,"text":"that he hurts the stomach of a northern Tibetan from somewhere."},{"start":14916.85,"end":14925.6,"text":"Therefore, can I make some proposition, any proposition, that they can transmit to the north?"},{"start":14925.62,"end":14926.6,"text":"I said, I don't know."},{"start":14926.66,"end":14929.5,"text":"President has said, we hate boys."},{"start":14929.52,"end":14931.28,"text":"We can't do that."},{"start":14931.3,"end":14937.04,"text":"He said, can we at least tell them that you're willing to negotiate it?"},{"start":14939.17,"end":14945.17,"text":"He said to me for the first time, I forget his name."},{"start":14945.19,"end":14947.58,"text":"You are not serious."},{"start":14947.6,"end":14949.42,"text":"I said, I don't know."},{"start":14949.44,"end":14951.94,"text":"Frankly, I could have given him some cash."},{"start":14952,"end":14953.42,"text":"I said, I've got to talk to the president."},{"start":14953.46,"end":14960.54,"text":"He said, I said, are you sure you can see me tomorrow?"},{"start":14960.56,"end":14965.93,"text":"I said, I'll talk to the president."},{"start":14967.68,"end":14969.9,"text":"I said, may I tell them to go get me something tomorrow?"},{"start":14969.92,"end":14974.3,"text":"I said, I don't have this small of a difference of consent."},{"start":14974.36,"end":14984.07,"text":"What you will decide, I'll hand it over to you before you make these 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them?"},{"start":15022.47,"end":15023.9,"text":"I believe... That doesn't give them anything to tell."},{"start":15023.98,"end":15024.18,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":15024.36,"end":15025.26,"text":"Why don't they tell him?"},{"start":15025.44,"end":15026.44,"text":"Why don't they tell him anything?"},{"start":15026.5,"end":15026.64,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":15027.28,"end":15035.99,"text":"But you see, I believe, Mr. President, if it turns out, rather than our giving anything to Hanoi now, why don't we say to give our full trust to Hanoi now?"},{"start":15036.81,"end":15040.35,"text":"We can do two things, Mr. President."},{"start":15041.27,"end":15046.51,"text":"And the other thing I was thinking, I would recommend to Bill Taylor."},{"start":15046.53,"end":15050.99,"text":"We were going to have to catch the 24-4, but now I'm going to find him myself."},{"start":15051.01,"end":15054.83,"text":"I put off the meeting with the Chinese, but he was really serious."},{"start":15054.88,"end":15056,"text":"He said, how about the Chinese?"},{"start":15057.31,"end":15059.59,"text":"What if the Chinese turn against us?"},{"start":15059.65,"end":15069.88,"text":"I said, I don't know if you want to leave and pull over Vietnam."},{"start":15069.92,"end":15071,"text":"We don't need the Chinese."},{"start":15071.08,"end":15077.18,"text":"I can easily give him a general formula tomorrow that doesn't give him anything."},{"start":15077.3,"end":15083.05,"text":"Plus, if I said I'll go there secretly before the 24th, provided there's a meeting on the 24th."},{"start":15084.11,"end":15084.85,"text":"How about this?"},{"start":15090.48,"end":15097.52,"text":"How about telling the children?"},{"start":15098.04,"end":15098.72,"text":"Well, let me see."},{"start":15098.82,"end":15101.18,"text":"I'm trying to think of games now for a minute."},{"start":15101.68,"end":15104.84,"text":"You know, I'm all for atmosphere, and I'm not much for substance."},{"start":15104.88,"end":15109.03,"text":"That is, giving them atmosphere is not..."},{"start":15111.47,"end":15111.92,"text":"I think so."},{"start":15112.07,"end":15113.85,"text":"But I think they're going to Russia."},{"start":15114.03,"end":15119.35,"text":"If they can guarantee secrecy to Russia, I think you should go to Russia."},{"start":15119.49,"end":15128.15,"text":"But you see, I believe, Mr. President, also there's some advantage in your sort of finding out what's right and what's wrong."},{"start":15128.31,"end":15136.66,"text":"You see, I could also set up this thing for you that in such a way that the way we have to chose that can set up."},{"start":15138.08,"end":15140.2,"text":"You'll guarantee secrecy if you don't know what it is."},{"start":15157.27,"end":15159.53,"text":"See, this will put more heat on the Russians."},{"start":15159.71,"end":15161.07,"text":"We have to make two conditions."},{"start":15161.49,"end":15164.19,"text":"One is, I can go home and they deliver this."},{"start":15164.21,"end":15166.75,"text":"That is just delivering them."},{"start":15166.8,"end":15167.69,"text":"They'll be there in 24 hours."},{"start":15167.94,"end":15170.02,"text":"They've been delivered 12 times."},{"start":15170.08,"end":15172.76,"text":"No, they've never been delivered."},{"start":15172.78,"end":15175.56,"text":"All right, okay."},{"start":15175.6,"end":15178.08,"text":"This time, as I've told them, they may deliver it."},{"start":15178.16,"end":15178.64,"text":"Well, I understand."},{"start":15178.72,"end":15180.91,"text":"They will talk to me each time."},{"start":15181.07,"end":15183.13,"text":"And we haven't got to spend more time with them."},{"start":15183.35,"end":15185.85,"text":"If they see me, this will be it."},{"start":15186.27,"end":15189.43,"text":"President seized me after what we are doing to Hanoi."},{"start":15189.47,"end":15197.22,"text":"I said to him, for example, look, we are trying to take increasingly strong military methods before the 24th."},{"start":15197.24,"end":15198.92,"text":"I just want you to know that."},{"start":15199.67,"end":15202.82,"text":"So those few people don't feel we are fooling them."},{"start":15202.88,"end":15205.74,"text":"He said, are you going to attack our ships?"},{"start":15205.76,"end":15213.04,"text":"I said, I can't tell you anything, but until the 24th, we will try to exercise as much restraint as the situation permits."},{"start":15213.16,"end":15215.36,"text":"But, if these guys see us,"},{"start":15216.18,"end":15217.55,"text":"As long as it's operating on the way."},{"start":15218.13,"end":15218.43,"text":"Either way."},{"start":15218.51,"end":15229.53,"text":"If they keep it secret, they have more of an incentive to keep it secret than we."},{"start":15229.57,"end":15229.69,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":15229.81,"end":15230.13,"text":"The Russians."},{"start":15230.15,"end":15230.23,"text":"Yes."},{"start":15230.25,"end":15230.39,"text":"Because..."},{"start":15230.41,"end":15231.23,"text":"But I'm getting down."},{"start":15231.47,"end":15234.74,"text":"I still get back to the fundamental thing."},{"start":15234.75,"end":15238.2,"text":"I don't know what's... What effect does it have on Hanoi?"},{"start":15238.22,"end":15240.14,"text":"On the way to an end of disaster."},{"start":15240.24,"end":15243.1,"text":"Is that true?"},{"start":15243.5,"end":15243.98,"text":"On the Russians?"},{"start":15244.41,"end":15250.97,"text":"And I go to Russia before I see them."},{"start":15251.09,"end":15259.45,"text":"And again, it puts us in trouble if it ever does come out."},{"start":15259.55,"end":15260.51,"text":"But it won't come out."},{"start":15260.65,"end":15261.27,"text":"We don't care."},{"start":15261.49,"end":15270.92,"text":"But I think, Mr. President, I have a lot of experience with these guys now."},{"start":15273.04,"end":15276.54,"text":"And I can assure, I can tell you, they are cracking."},{"start":15276.56,"end":15288.49,"text":"He said Mrs. McCormick was moved to tears by Mrs. McCormick, and has written a personal letter to Mrs. President."},{"start":15290.49,"end":15292.09,"text":"I told him, look at this position."},{"start":15292.15,"end":15296.19,"text":"I think the Russians want to talk to you."},{"start":15296.3,"end":15299.26,"text":"The opposition of President depends on this government, sir."},{"start":15302,"end":15303.02,"text":"He said he is."},{"start":15331.39,"end":15332.21,"text":"Or he be caught."},{"start":15334.59,"end":15355.04,"text":"Well, I said to him, he said, he asked me what I thought of how this was handled, and I said that I know the technique, but you see to it that you always take out all the loose chains and slide them out, and you lose all your good will that way."},{"start":15355.06,"end":15356.88,"text":"He said, I said, but how can I do that?"},{"start":15356.9,"end":15357.94,"text":"I said, there's nothing better."},{"start":15359.2,"end":15366.13,"text":"You never fix up your strength, but let me prove it for all of you."},{"start":15366.15,"end":15372.07,"text":"Remember that, let me see how you're doing."},{"start":15372.09,"end":15375.71,"text":"I said, we do think that, we said, how is this going to work?"},{"start":15376.35,"end":15377.35,"text":"I said, I don't know."},{"start":15377.66,"end":15384.9,"text":"Do you think you're going to keep us sitting out there?"},{"start":15384.92,"end":15385.18,"text":"President,"},{"start":15385.97,"end":15387.23,"text":"What do you think?"},{"start":15387.39,"end":15390.12,"text":"I believe it's really a secret trip on me."},{"start":15390.36,"end":15392.24,"text":"I had cruel anti-advantages."},{"start":15392.26,"end":15398.06,"text":"They're so panting after us that any slight chance they might feel they're attacking us over what they're going to do would disappear."},{"start":15398.08,"end":15401.49,"text":"A secret trip could be taken."},{"start":15401.78,"end":15407.73,"text":"Let's figure out what you could give them."},{"start":15407.75,"end":15409.89,"text":"Nothing."},{"start":15411.01,"end":15413.27,"text":"That's before what you would say to them."},{"start":15414.61,"end":15422.52,"text":"Mr. President, it would be a mistake to give them anything to deserve."},{"start":15425.33,"end":15433.64,"text":"I agree that we've got their needs taken care of."},{"start":15433.8,"end":15434.64,"text":"Correct."},{"start":15435.41,"end":15442.25,"text":"I think going to Russia is giving them something."},{"start":15442.39,"end":15451.44,"text":"We won't ask you to surrender, or we won't."},{"start":15463.44,"end":15468.5,"text":"I'll just give the general government the truth, which commits us to nothing."},{"start":15468.88,"end":15470.4,"text":"But also that it has to be done now."},{"start":15470.84,"end":15474.22,"text":"But we must now bring the truth towards us."},{"start":15476.24,"end":15485.52,"text":"And I tell you, Mr. President, every instinct I have, I have never said to you that we have a chance in any particular time."},{"start":15485.66,"end":15492.92,"text":"But we've never had enough begging answers for specific reasons."},{"start":15496.22,"end":15497.36,"text":"I mean..."},{"start":15521.33,"end":15531.3,"text":"But what I think I would like to do now is to tell him that you're considering this trip idea, because when you're hit with a T-52, then we have the pressure to protest."},{"start":15531.36,"end":15532.7,"text":"Tell him that way."},{"start":15532.72,"end":15537.22,"text":"I won't tell him that you have to do the route, but I'll tell him you are accurate."},{"start":15537.24,"end":15538.44,"text":"Tell him he can tell his government."},{"start":15538.52,"end":15540.56,"text":"There's a friend, Tom, who's going to Camp David tonight."},{"start":15540.58,"end":15548.23,"text":"He says that he will want to do things, that he will listen to the chances."},{"start":15548.6,"end":15550.41,"text":"We should take a trip."},{"start":15550.43,"end":15554.05,"text":"We'd like to see what, but he wants to see their message first."},{"start":15554.11,"end":15555.15,"text":"How's that?"},{"start":15555.21,"end":15556.11,"text":"They didn't say that."},{"start":15556.17,"end":15557.69,"text":"Then tell him he..."},{"start":15557.71,"end":15562.09,"text":"I think we ought to still make the Canadian thing."},{"start":15562.23,"end":15565.97,"text":"I've got a domestic problem here, too, you know."},{"start":15566.01,"end":15568.05,"text":"Can you make mine?"},{"start":15568.15,"end":15568.57,"text":"I'll make it."},{"start":15568.59,"end":15568.93,"text":"It's time."},{"start":15568.95,"end":15570.17,"text":"It was decent, mind you."},{"start":15570.39,"end":15571.61,"text":"I'll make it."},{"start":15573.09,"end":15573.61,"text":"I'll make it."},{"start":15573.98,"end":15576.24,"text":"It has to be set for the Chinese, too."},{"start":15576.34,"end":15577.66,"text":"If you pull this one off..."},{"start":15580.24,"end":15584.39,"text":"I will guarantee you one thing, Mr. President."},{"start":15584.47,"end":15590.65,"text":"Not guaranteed."},{"start":15590.77,"end":15600.57,"text":"I think there is a two chance out of three that we can stop the war for the rest of this year."},{"start":15608.14,"end":15611.76,"text":"That's the minimum I think we can get."},{"start":15611.78,"end":15615.02,"text":"Whether we can stop it altogether, I don't know."},{"start":15616.63,"end":15619.17,"text":"But that I think we can get."},{"start":15619.31,"end":15619.41,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":15620.29,"end":15624.59,"text":"They just made very good changes, aren't they?"},{"start":15624.63,"end":15626.48,"text":"Henry has approved some more changes."},{"start":15626.74,"end":15627.56,"text":"Yeah, you go for it."},{"start":15627.58,"end":15629.8,"text":"This is all right as far as you're concerned, huh?"},{"start":15631.2,"end":15631.34,"text":"Yes."},{"start":15631.4,"end":15635.3,"text":"That's one sentence that was questioned, and everything should stay in."},{"start":15642.2,"end":15670.04,"text":"I'm hearing this sound here."},{"start":15671.11,"end":15673.37,"text":"Disrespect and special responsibility falls upon great powers."},{"start":15673.39,"end":15674.43,"text":"You cannot avoid responsibility."},{"start":15674.69,"end":15678.5,"text":"Hey, James, that paragraph, that's the big paragraph."},{"start":15681.36,"end":15686.64,"text":"What I'd like to do is just go try and turn that into the same tone as the rest of it."},{"start":15686.66,"end":15687.14,"text":"Oh, I don't know."},{"start":15687.2,"end":15688.24,"text":"The tone's got to be tougher."},{"start":15688.26,"end":15691.64,"text":"It's got to be, I don't want it to double either."},{"start":15691.7,"end":15693.4,"text":"It usually comes out of the staff."},{"start":15693.42,"end":15694.05,"text":"It's got to be this tone."},{"start":15694.07,"end":15694.2,"text":"Right?"},{"start":15694.23,"end":15694.76,"text":"You want to soften it down?"},{"start":15694.78,"end":15695.95,"text":"No, I'm not softening 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