Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 413-034
Date: Monday, February 26, 1973 at 7:15 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/413-034

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[0:04] Did you get out at all in the yard or anything?
[0:09] Where'd you go?
[0:12] Play?
[0:17] Work hard.
[0:22] Yeah, I was there.
[0:26] How was your public reaction?
[0:28] You see, that's the thing that I've conceptualized that the main thing that we need to remember, as I've told you since I've been on the tape, I mean, it was very good before, but since the P.O.W.
[0:49] and the emotional content, it's unbelievable.
[0:50] Then I sent by some of the, there's a lot, some of the flyers.
[0:52] It makes you realize, first, why you can't give amnesty.
[0:54] And second, also, it makes you realize that they all knew that we had to do it.
[0:59] But what do people say, Henry?
[1:15] What do you run into?
[1:15] Crack.
[1:16] Break.
[1:16] Break.
[1:16] All good.
[1:16] And how's our friend, Coach Bob?
[1:21] You know that it's rather good for you to get out of town now, isn't it?
[1:26] But even here,
[1:27] It seems to me, Henry, that you've got to go like a weatherman, like George Bundy.
[1:43] Remember when he called you at the time of the bombing?
[1:47] What's he going to tell his son?
[1:47] But that's why I say that this little nitpicking and arrest just made no man's attention.
[1:50] Most of it.
[1:50] And also, we have to remember that these are isolated things.
[1:56] They're handling it well, for sure.
[2:19] I think it was weird.
[2:19] I would say that the times, most of the reality problems were out of touch with the rest.
[2:21] At this point.
[2:21] Mr. Baker, I think, can't stand the idea that we're doing this kind of awful cheap thing.
[2:23] But I understand that you impressed Grudging, and I see that that's what you're doing.
[2:26] We're talking about China.
[2:42] Did he come true with peace?
[2:42] He's been good at everything else.
[2:43] I know you spent a lot of time with him.
[2:44] Okay, we're going to get a little rest.