On January 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:55 am to 9:23 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 395-024 of the White House Tapes.
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Now I am told and told and told that I'm going to have to have a very good life.
I'm going to have to have a very good life.
I'm going to have to have a very good life.
Right here.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
I encourage you
Well, there may be a complication.
And also, there is something to be said about that.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I really, I think you talked to the vet about it.
All right.
Yeah, well, that's, that might take you to tell us to get back to the hospital.
Afterwards, in regards to what I was answering, I guess you asked, but it's important that I said I wanted to know what they are.
So we'll get back to that and see if we can answer that.
Now that leads us to what we need to know.
Well, the way that we went back, yes, there was a way that we were able to, you know, we were able to, you know, we were able to, you know, we were able to, you know, we were able to, you know,
And I have to go on sometimes, so it's kind of weird.
What is that?
The point that I make is that on the 18th, so that we need to have something so that we can have a whole week of, you know, that's what I'm saying.
So then there's, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a question.
How would you do that?
Well, I think, you know, I mean, basically, if you're sending a person to the community, that's a good action piece of it.
I mean, that's what you would say.
If you're meeting on the present day, you'd probably say, you know, there's a substantial amount of staff.
You're going to have to do that for further discussions.
I just think further discussions.
And then on his return, the president will read from the congressional leaders and report it to them.
And that's what I'm trying to do.
I'm trying to do my best.
So there's further discussions on that.
There's further discussions on that.
Very much.
And then on his return, the president will read from the congressional leaders and report it to them.
I think that way, the voters can get the congressional leaders to vote.
I don't think you should say anything.
You can't tell them how much you know.
All of us who say that the announcement is disparaging, we've had it.
Of course, you don't.
That's right.
Well, you won't do that.
You won't be able to do it.
Even if two is against you.
Even if two is against you.
I would have to say the same thing.
If you're going to compare us to the previous discussions, and why you're here, and the president will work with congressional leaders, and also report to the bank,
On his return, that was the meeting that we were going to do.
It will indicate until June, because Van Busch will have a bit of an experience going on over there.
He'll wrap around with us on some of the stuff that we're going to do.
Henry had gotten this mistake from the president a few times earlier.
The period went over, and he had to take a week to get through these things.
We never had that in common.
This is basically the place that things are done.
I think he's serious.
I think he's always been concerned about whether agents have been really playing with the president's ideas and so forth.
He said, but I can tell you that that was not the case, but I can understand why you might not believe what he said.
But since the first nation stood down, the president has personally been provoking Trump.
Every word that I am sharing right now has been personal, either dictated by or approved by the president.
President, I put a word out there so that you can see it.
We can't keep it from him.
We can't control him from this obsession he has about this.
This is the President's program he's planning.
The President, I'm totally approaching him.
The President has seen our here in the U.S. today.
This is as good as we can get.
He is going forward.
I'm starting to think that in congressional years, the President
That's the way I support you.
That's the way I support you.
That's the way I support you.
That's the way I support you.
Now, there's one real thing that you might say, well, I've had to meet you before, to meet you again.
I was afraid of making an announcement.
I said, I knew what I was going to do.
It was a bitch cut, but I would pay for it.
I grew up here.
I grew up in my church.
And, you know, there would be a time when I would be in it, and I would do it again.
I did say to him that he wanted to stay with me for a while.
But I don't know if he's married yet or something like that.
He wants to meet with me.
So he said, yeah, I don't know what to say.
He says, Andy, he doesn't want to stay with me.
But I have to be back.
I didn't want to be back that night.
I don't know what to say.
So I go out Sunday night after I finish my lunch here.
Well, not really.
I'm not going to go out of my way to say that.
I don't know how you can do that.
I don't know how you can do that.
I don't know how you can do that.
I don't know how you can do that.
I don't know how you can do that.
I don't know how you can do that.
And I talked to the leaders.
As I understand now, the plan has come to an end.
Now, a misconnection of the problem and the need for a better solution.
If you'd like to start that for me, I'd be happy to.
We're all right.
We're all right.
We're all right.
We're all right.
We're all right.
The only problem is that I'll bet that
I think they have got to know before it goes back.
On the way back, they just can't wait for some guy to call and say they're announcing it.
That's where we can build on the idea that they said that they were not sure they were informed.
They were not informed about the great loss of the cause.
They were not sure they were not informed about the resurgence of the law.
They were not sure that they were not informed about the suspension of the law.
That's not right.
That's not right.
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It's very essential now for nobody to say not to testify before the Congress.
I'm sorry to say we've got a lot of issues.
We've got a lot of issues.
We've got a lot of issues.
We've got a lot of issues.
I paid the loaner to sign out.
But I was better than I could hit a rocker.
I'm telling you the same thing.
I'm sure I'll be sitting after this because of the instructor's behavior.
He's asking me about the rocker saying, I don't know if you're going to put it on.
I don't know if you're going to put it on.
What's your answer?
Well, if I am, here's the way I would prefer to do it.
I'd like to get my student card.
I think it's better to work with a signer.
I'm not going to lie to you.
Henry's back.
It's his fault.
I don't have to be.
It's a deceit.
And then he just, he goes over and says, I don't think that's a good progress.
The president's going to stop the bomb.
They're going to try to get this right.
They're going to try to get us to a wonderful realm.
But, I mean, we're going to get to a whole lot of things.
It is a parody, but none of it's crazy.
Before we make the announcement, I want to make a little comment about the wall that was announced earlier.
It's in parity.
And there's been other sections in Congress that have said that there's a problem.
And I just had a question about that.
I guess you're right.
I think I'm right.
All right.
Kennedy's late this morning.
I thought we were going to talk about that earlier.
But we know the Rodney problem being primarily that he's going to lock it.
The head of the company is the one who's going to want to come down and sit at a meeting.
You know, Bill has always had this business that when the goddamn thing is going to come off, he wants to be there in the midst of it.
But I just think everyone must not let it do that.
You know, on Sunday, I run an interview with Andrew on the Super Bowl.
He's going to offer everybody some money to watch him out.
And the other thing is, you know, here in New York, there's only Andrew.
And they build it up too much.
Yes, sir.
I don't want to appear.
I don't want to be supported in the lower case.
There's agreement on both sides.
Discussing the agreement.
The point that they make is that there is an agreement now between both sides.
First, there is no agreement.
Second, there is an agreement not to discuss the substance of what they are trying to agree upon.
Therefore, until we get an agreement, an agreement to discuss the substance of that agreement, on the other side, this whole fractal structure of the
What the hell?
Sunday morning that would be cold.
Here we go.
Here we go.
We've got to tell them they must come to us in Congress.
And just come to the Congress.
If you see what I've got in mind, I will say nothing.
But regardless of what happens, when I lose, the mayor will have to say, low key again.
Okay.
Okay.
But we don't have to say that the peace is at hand.
Let me add to one other question.
We've gained a great deal, a very great deal of gift from the U.S.
The U.S. has been announced, and I suppose we've got to move forward along the way.
Let me come around a little circle here.
We've already dropped out of the North Vietnam.
The South Vietnamese Air Force does, I understand, but they're very goddamn well now in terms of the
Why is it not possible to say, oh, yes, I wonder what the mic is doing.
Oh, yes.
The first problem is .
The first problem is that they don't need our property then because they're going to come in and clean it up.
They've got it.
We need a tax.
How the hell do we get out of it?
But I'm getting ahead of you.
We've over-explanated how great that we is.
Well, no, I think that would be manageable by itself.
The other problem is that we're going to have to get rid of the house.
I wish, I mean, I think it's going to be fun to get rid of the house.
I don't know, I wouldn't say that.
I just think it's going to be a lot.
Most people are going to say it's going to be a lot.
Everybody in the house is going to have to leave.
See what I mean?
If we didn't say that, we wouldn't have been able to do this.
We can't go on.
We can't go on.
I think it's very important to not be comfortable alone.
Of course you can be calm, but, you know, it's really important.
And I would recommend to you, as long as you have control of your mind, that you're able to do what you want to do.
That's the impression to do this a second time, rather than a thousand times.
I just want to say that this time is so important.
That's where you get out.
How about having a de facto 30th birthday on the 30th?
So it doesn't show that there's a de facto 30th on the 30th.
De facto, we've had ceasefires over Christmas and all that sort of stuff.
De facto, there was on the 30th, on the 30th.
I don't know why I did that.
My guess is that I was one of the few
I don't think it's the group, but they go to the high schools.
I thought across the board, and we've done a lot of support, and we've done a great start.
I mean, I don't think, I think all, I think the science of it is so clear that it's not a little bit of that.
But from the time Riley came to us, that's the start of what we're going to be doing.
I think it's going to be fun.
And you want to remember, we had a bop at home for 16 years.
We were cursed at the time.
We were cursed for 15 years.
We got 30, credit for it.
Only got 30.
I don't know.
I don't know if I ever used all of them.
You want to have a bop at home for this election.
I said, you know, I don't know.
I would like to do it.
I've got to do it.
I'm not going to proceed to do that.
But you know, bop at home is going to be all that much for people now.
I don't know if it's a problem.
I don't know if it's true.
I don't know if it's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't want to interact with you, so you have to let me know.
It's not good to do a man thing.
I don't want to interact with you.
I don't want to interact with you.
I think I want to say to my mom that I am not aware of the fact that my wife is going through the whole period of my life.
I'm going to tell her what I think.
I'll be able to tell her what I think.
Well, it took me a long time to figure out this story.
I'm going to tell her what I think.
It was actually a splitting of other policies.
It was dealt with at home.
It was developed after it was stopped in the Congress and the media.
And I think part of it was the furious frustration of the fact that it didn't work.
And I think for this country, I don't see the campus as low enough to do
I like to enjoy an adult person every single time.
You know, when you're stressed, you know, when you're stressed, you know, when you're stressed, you know, when you're stressed, you know, when you're stressed, you know, when you're stressed, you know, when you're stressed, you know, when you're stressed, you know,
Okay.
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