Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 799-011
Date: Monday, October 16, 1972 at 10:22 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/799-011

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[0:00] Mr. President, I've got one other thought, just to have it in mind.
[0:06] Supposing, Mr. President, I go to Illinois.
[0:10] Could I then offer to meet you in Midway next week?
[0:17] Any time.
[0:18] You see, supposing we did it this way, I come back from Illinois.
[0:22] You go out to Midway, meet you in Midway.
[0:26] Then you come back from Midway, and I don't see a schedule.
[0:30] I thought of that, and I said, don't clear that with Hall or anybody.
[0:33] I don't want this disgusting thing.
[0:34] I said, if you and I have that private side deal, then I'll cancel the whole thing and schedule it.
[0:41] That would be an even more dramatic way.
[0:43] That's right.
[0:45] We'd go to Hanoi.
[0:46] That's right.
[0:47] And then Biden.
[0:48] I'd come back with Biden.
[0:50] Right.
[0:51] I go from Siouxtown to Midway.
[0:53] That's right.
[0:54] I'll meet you at Midway with you.
[0:56] Good night.
[0:57] Or I'll come back here and go to Midway.
[0:58] No, no, no.
[0:58] You go to Midway, and I'll meet there, and I'll fly you to Midway.
[1:01] I'm afraid you'll have Rogers in your hand.
[1:04] I'm not saying you're wrong.
[1:05] I don't think so.
[1:08] What the hell's the difference?
[1:10] What's the difference?
[1:12] He'll have to...
[1:13] But I'll just leave you alone and have Rogers go to the foreman's.
[1:15] And that might be another way of doing it.
[1:18] Yeah.
[1:20] Okay.
[1:20] Rogers and Johnson.
[1:24] Yeah.
[1:26] Okay, good.
[1:27] Good deal, Henry.
[1:29] Good.
[1:30] And that he might have had.
[1:32] Okay.