Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 402-007
Date: Sunday, January 21, 1973 at 5:22 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/402-007

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:04] I'm just calling to, uh, if that's something that's been around since very recently, but there's nothing else to report.
[0:25] Well, I talked to him on the phone briefly, too, before, uh, prior to the inspection.
[0:28] He gave that impression to me.
[0:28] Of course, I, uh, you know...
[0:29] His feeling is that if he tells him personally, it's why he doesn't write something different in the letter.
[0:47] He's making a record in the letter.
[0:48] So that's very possible.
[0:48] But the only problem we really have here, Henry, is that I see it as a lie.
[0:50] I don't know what to do with those leaders.
[0:51] We have to go back to America.
[1:30] Yeah.
[1:41] Yeah.
[1:41] Yeah.
[2:14] said they were not ready for this.
[2:59] Well, we will just take a quick gander at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
[3:22] And we'll be here.
[3:22] We'll meet at the EOB.
[3:23] And I think just one more question.
[3:23] I don't know how the hell that's going to happen.
[3:24] It seems to me that all of us have got nothing to do with it.
[4:03] Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
[4:27] You'll be long enough.
[4:27] You'll be long enough.
[4:27] What?
[4:28] Well, if you get stuck, what?
[4:28] Well, but if you do, there's no problem with that.
[4:29] The problem is that we're still going forward in the same paper sign.
[4:31] Although, you never...
[4:31] Uh, they have a clear understanding of what you're doing right there.
[4:57] Yeah.
[4:57] Yeah.
[4:57] Yeah.
[4:58] Yeah.
[4:58] Yeah.
[5:13] Well, when you say we're putting a hard case together, I don't know.
[5:28] We've got just the extra time.
[5:29] I hope this goes for Christ's sake.
[5:30] I don't think nobody's going to say anything.
[5:31] Nobody's going to say anything.
[5:45] I guess the main thing that's been to the board, I'm sure, is certainly what he tells us.
[5:59] He was not going to have it.
[5:59] I'm sure he was.
[6:24] In other words, he wants to be there with you rather than just cry.
[6:38] I understand.
[6:38] I understand.
[6:38] Good.
[6:38] Well, that's the thing to do.
[6:43] I'm just... Sure.
[6:50] I said it.
[6:51] I hope he's back.
[6:51] That's why I keep all that thinking down.
[6:52] Sure.
[6:52] Sure.
[6:52] Sure.
[6:52] I'm sure.
[6:52] I'm sure.
[6:53] Good.
[6:53] Good.
[6:53] All right.
[6:53] We'll see you tomorrow.
[6:53] Bye.
[6:54] Bye.
[6:54] Bye.
[6:54] Bye.