Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 380-039
Date: Thursday, December 28, 1972 at 4:00 PM
Participants: Kissinger, Henry A.; Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/380-039

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:26] Hello.
[0:26] Hi.
[0:26] How are you?
[0:26] How's the weather out there?
[0:27] Good.
[0:27] You're in Palm Springs?
[0:27] Yeah.
[0:28] Yeah, we have a house there.
[0:28] Oh.
[0:28] That is nice though.
[0:29] You've got some fine taste.
[0:29] Yeah.
[0:37] When he said he just gave me a brief sense of color.
[1:05] Right.
[1:05] No conditions.
[1:05] Right.
[1:05] Right.
[1:05] Now the question is, how about time?
[1:06] Today is Thursday.
[1:08] Is that their understanding too?
[1:32] Yeah.
[1:32] Yeah, I just want to know what the understanding is.
[1:33] Right.
[1:46] As the public announces at 10 a.m. Saturday.
[2:12] Oh shit, I just wanna...
[2:18] Well, I see no reason, no reason to do it otherwise.
[2:42] What are the arguments?
[2:42] I don't know.
[2:43] No, no, no, I wouldn't exchange any messages.
[2:43] Because basically they have accepted our proposal, right?
[2:45] Our proposal was that we would call
[2:52] So we will be keeping our word.
[3:12] That's all I want to be sure of.
[3:13] All right.
[3:13] All right.
[3:14] What do you suggest we should go back to all this?
[3:32] Yeah.
[4:12] So that's the 10 o'clock public announcement, 10 o'clock Saturday morning.
[4:30] All right.
[4:30] All right.
[4:42] But you've got to tell them.
[5:06] They already know that.
[5:07] Yeah.
[5:07] So basically you have so many announcements, right?
[5:08] I'm sorry.
[5:08] Horrible announcements.
[5:08] Right.
[5:09] And then they'll say, what about the bombing?
[5:09] That's what's currently happening.
[5:10] You know, bombing.
[5:20] okay but at least
[5:48] The point is, as we know, we couldn't blow the bank, but we didn't do it because, goddammit, there's nothing else that can fly at this time of year.
[6:15] Well, let's go.
[6:16] Right on.
[6:16] We're gonna make a new bank.
[6:25] uh you