On October 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Nikolai S. Patolichev, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, William P. Rogers, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan, Helmut ("Hal") Sonnenfeldt, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:40 pm to 3:16 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 803-018 of the White House Tapes.
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It's still over here, but you can run it forward and see if you can get it in there.
It's still over there.
It's still in the corner.
It's still in the corner.
It's still in the corner.
It's still in there.
This is our right.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yes, sir.
I mean, all those documents are a follow-up of these basic documents that we signed in March.
I've got a question.
What I see is...
Following those, these documents, meaning the recommendations for the development of the population, they may be supposed to...
I don't know what it is.
I think it's very important.
I think it's very important.
Thank you.
He has great confidence in himself.
That's why he has to do his work.
It is important to know that there is no doubt that we have to make progress.
It is important to know that there is no doubt that we have to make progress.
It is important to know that there is no doubt that we have to make progress.
It is important to know that there is no doubt that we have to make progress.
I'm sorry.
This is the point.
And also, if we know the content of the template, one of the problems cannot become one for the other way around.
We need both problems.
Sorry.
We know the template.
And if we're going to do it, we need both problems.
Well, I think the important thing is
And that's me, far beyond the people that I need to meet.
But, I mean, it's definitely a big deal.
So, I do have to learn how to make it work.
And it works out.
And I don't think that I need to do it.
I don't think I need to do it.
Because, uh, one of the things that's been helpful to me, and it's been helpful to both of us, you know, is that it, uh, can create change plans that are necessary for us to be in practice and politically.
This does not mean one cannot move forward without the other, but it does mean that one helps the other.
It doesn't mean that one cannot kill the other.
It just means that one helps the other.
I think, for example, we can sit down and work out very, very common problems in the Middle East and the other technical matters.
In this case, we also need to do a lot of research.
If we can answer all such difficult questions, such as scientific and scientific questions, then it means that we can solve and solve the questions of the anthropological character of the universe in terms of the questions of the meaning of this universe.
I think that the article that was published
the most productive countries in the world.
And what this agreement signals is that they should need a lot of giants working together and multiply what they can do.
And they can do far more than if they just worked together.
Yes, but they have a chance to make money.
They can do something more than what they can make it.
That means that there has to be a border between what you want to do and what you don't want to do.
I've heard, I remember saying to a few freshmen, and a lot of you in our class today, that, you know, we talk about these things a lot, but I'm just saying, it's all about, you know, the presentation.
And I think it's a good presentation, and I think it's a good presentation.
Yes, it is.
I think it's a good presentation.
I think it's a good presentation.
I think it's a good presentation.
Uh, I mean, I think it happens.
I think it happens.
I think it happens.
I think it happens.
I think it happens.
I think it happens.
I think it happens.
I think it happens.
And we believe, our opinion is that in the whole world and in other countries, data shall be also received with great attention.
And it is important that we do.
and to account the fact that you mentioned that it is important to be talking with those who are beyond their economic education.
We, uh, have to keep going.
We're going to have to take this.
We're going to have to take this.
We want to do more.
We're going to have to take this.
Thank you.
I think it's only fair to say.
At this stage, we have just created the legal basis for housing and other things, and we have removed the
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Mr. Minister, I find the directive that I, the directive that I have been laboring to develop today.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay.
Okay.
I like this type of people.
Yes, I'm comfortable.
Yes, I like this type of people.
Yes, I'm comfortable.
There are a lot of hours and there are a lot of people that are lost.
There are a lot of people that are lost.
There are a lot of people that are lost.
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Although we are far away from each other, it is no trouble to come over.
I think so.
We shall keep working in this division.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
What happened next?
What happened next?
What happened next?
Come here.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here.
Thank you.
And the more important aspect of our relations will be more and more economic.
That's our goal.
Economic cooperation, economic health support.
We follow the design and work directly with the department.
We make sure that we are the highest level of management overall.
We've been working with you since the beginning of this year.
Yes, this year we've been working with you since the beginning of this year.
Yes, this year we've been working with you since the beginning of this year.
We've been working with you since the beginning of this year.
While he knows the details, he does not allow little things to obstruct or blind him to the big picture.
I try to do the same thing.
We all know the details.
You always have a need that's being taken care of.
There was a long discussion about the size of the hole.
When he fired the car, you know, Bill said, you know, I didn't like it, but he didn't allow us this hole.
I wanted to get a point.
I wanted to get a point.
I wanted to get a point.
I wanted to get a point.
I wanted to get a point.
I wanted to get a point.
I want to tell the Minister that today is a very interesting day for someone less than four years.
For we're all homeless people, isn't that right?
This is okay.
We're all thinking about it.
We're thinking about it.
We're thinking about it.
We're thinking about it.
We're thinking about it.
We're thinking about it.
We're thinking about it.
We're thinking about it.
So, this is one of those things you call a burgeoning.
So, let's take a look at the ratings here.
That's a 5 milliliters current.
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
That's it.
That's it.
That's it.
That's it.
Well,
Now, let me let you take care of my supervisor.
Oh, okay.
I just want you guys to get ready for the show.
Here you go.
Here it comes.
Now, official, official, the scene will occur in a minute.
Now, we're going to have to be careful.
The only thing we're going to have to do is we're going to have to be careful.
We're going to have to be careful.
We're going to have to be careful.
We're going to have to be careful.
We went all over the city.
When I was here in Washington, I was here in Washington.
I was here in Washington.
I was here in Washington.
uh... well
I'm sorry about that.
I know we're going to have to do the breakfast.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I would like to say that it doesn't mean to be a loss.
It's not partially my fault.
It's probably because you are a bigger thing than I am.
You're right.
That's why I'm doing it.
The truth is you've been very involved in the service and the same as the minister.
We're right.
And if we talk about the great length of Moscow, then we can directly involve our senators, and it's very important.
I think also the other point is very important.
If we want to get a sense of accountability and everything, for example, all due is announced.
We've got to say, all right, we've got a cell phone.
That's the beginning.
And I say, look, we've got to get this whole crowd in the country to meet.
and the exit bank thing, we've set up the land use thing, and we have set up a clean, but now it's voluntarily not going to be.
We may not have set up the structure for building economic cooperation to do that.
But I think it is a positive thing to have.
It is a positive thing.
and Midwestern states.
We serve in a time when we need all of that stuff.
And we're just going to have to make those decisions.
I don't understand what you say.
Well, I do.
Let's understand it.
Because I asked what they need us to do.
All the nations in Europe have the Japanese right.
And everybody says, right.
Right.
and what I can say is that these things that are economic relations with the Soviet Union are now going to be things that are the same things as the economic relations we have with the other things, other great, great things.
So what the book is, what this book is going to be.
Excellent.
Thank you.
And I thought, this is going to be a good job, and I know I'm going to have to work, and I know that it was a lot of work to have, but it's terribly important.
And you might be friends with them, if they have an American opinion, or friends or anything like that.
And I think that's, I think that's a little bit of what you guys say, and the reason I'm talking to you is because I'm very honest with you.
But, you know, if you're a little hungry, you know, the last couple of days, we're trying to let all of those things on.
It's a hell of a deal.
But I think they think we play just the best way.
You know, they're...
I think we think it's an excellent team.
They're a good team.
But, uh... And to get back on the ball, it's a hell of a good deal for us.
But they're... What is it?
What is the deal?
But I mean, our problem is, you know, we could have been a man.
Yeah.
Well, he's done.
And, uh...
Well, why should I say that?
I'm just going to say to you what it really is.
Well, it's an arc.
Now, I don't know if it's my foot.
I don't know if it's my foot.
I don't know if it's the floor or if my foot's in it.
The real problem is that he's scared.
Not of the foot.
I don't know what the problem is.
I can't tell you that.
It's a hell of a deal for him.
But I really couldn't tell you that.
But the problem is my secret.
The easy part of the thing is that you have to gently force it.
You see they're moving in or outside.
I don't know how you can get it.
You call them out.
You have a problem for God's sakes.
You hear that they're putting everything that can fly in that area around there.
Because that'll get you a little bit of a chance to sit in it.
Because Bill, it's the right thing to do.
It's the right thing to do.
It's the right thing to do.
It's the right thing to do.
It's the right thing to do.
I don't know what's going to happen.
I told him, I don't mean to insult him, but I said, look, if you go there and you're not in your position, I want you to, if you believe this, be a advocate.
Don't be a counselor.
Don't have to be.
Mel called me later that night, and he said, I think he said, I think it's something that you can say, but there can't be this much.
But hey, but there can't be this much.
And I also said this, and he wrote it.
I said, now look, you've got to tell me, I said, I'll tell you.
That's the only thing, you've got to bring it down.
He had also told me that he does not make this.
That, of course, we have to reach out, but he is going to seriously rule the frankness of a man in his office.
He doesn't.
He doesn't.
He doesn't.
He doesn't.