Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 425-019
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 1973 at 3:57 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/425-019

This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite it as authoritative.

[0:00] Yeah.
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:06] I got your memorandum on Vietnam.
[0:18] Let me tell you one problem I have here.
[0:20] The difficulty with going into the east in North Vietnam is very hard.
[0:26] and even aid to the South.
[0:31] My point being that the purpose of setting on how we're going to keep the agreement and the rest, I think I can get that.
[0:47] You see, after my meeting with the Jew, I'll have to see the press and I'll just lay it off there, perhaps.
[0:51] The difficulty of the case now is it needs more explanation.
[0:54] I've got to say my promise.
[0:57] Yeah.
[0:59] What I feel in this one, I should say, is that I will raise a little bit of a problem.
[1:12] I said, you know, the idea that after 25 years of guerrilla war, there's still some problems.
[1:19] Nothing more than that.
[1:22] But mainly good to say, look, we've accomplished our goal.
[1:24] That's that.
[1:24] Not how they act, but how we go about it.
[1:25] I think if I get into the portion where you bring up the A to the R, does that really require a sentence?
[1:35] Does it really require time to speak?
[1:41] Do you agree?
[1:48] It won't be here.
[1:49] Right, okay.
[1:50] Right, right, sure.
[2:01] Is that right?
[2:11] I see you're fine.
[2:15] Well, I don't think you'd be safe.
[2:21] Right.
[2:21] I got it.
[2:23] Right.
[2:26] But that's the hell with the aid we're putting in there.
[2:30] We expected an agreement to be made that we expected to be complied with.
[2:40] And, uh, that's that.
[2:41] And we, uh, we shall not tolerate a, uh, failure to comply with the prescription.
[2:47] I agree.
[2:47] I agree the hell with it.
[2:52] You haven't had a chance to talk to the reading app?
[3:15] Right.
[3:15] Okay.
[3:16] All right.
[3:18] I just said that we can get ready to have a courier, but that's .
[3:23] OK.