On January 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Col. Richard T. Kennedy met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:19 am to 8:28 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 395-019 of the White House Tapes.
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Thank you.
I don't want that.
Thank you.
The way this schedule is working now,
Every now and then,
Is there a purpose for that?
What I'm thinking actually is that what I'm getting from it is that it depends on the announcement.
But it's not understandable.
Because the agreement is supposed to go back to Monday night.
So yeah, that shouldn't have too much to add.
Yeah.
So what you say is that I'll leave it to you.
Well, it's just as well, having had the
Thank you.
Yeah, of course, but the following morning is when he's going to announce it.
Okay, and then, of course, the informing the senators, and the Rogers and Laird, seems to make the impression, practically, it has to be something like that.
And that's all these Rogers and Laird have been talking about.
That would be one advantage.
I don't want to call any problems.
I don't want any arguments.
But you can go.
You can just drop over and say you're great.
You see, tomorrow the announcement will come.
It's coming back.
It's going to make a great speech.
It's going to make a great speech.
It's going to make a great speech.
Right, and you should do that.
And this is the way you're going to have those things right beside us.
And that's that.
Now, we've got time.
Oh, you don't, oh, he's over six in the morning.
He is over there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, I don't think I've mentioned that that's the model.
I see.
That would be all right.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess that's what you have to do.
But I've got leaders.
I don't want any leaders involved.
I mean, uh, yeah.
I suppose that the market wants to tell us that they don't want them to be in the market.
I guess you can't even believe it.
There have been developments that have been going on right now.
Right now.
And that is very important.
And therefore, very important.
We don't want to tell that story to the president.
I think that will be announced, I don't think, before they're going on.
I believe that there will be an announcement before then.
Oh, I see.
That's right.
I do just say there have been some developments in the president's judgment.
Only the honorary president.
The president's doctor said he had any adjustments, only that he had not heard the rest of the developments.
At this point, the president's very important.
They're part of the negotiations.
are underway in a serious way.
Serious.
There is a chance.
That's right.
Okay.
Yeah.