Conversation 836-004

TapeTape 836StartTuesday, January 9, 1973 at 8:28 AMEndTuesday, January 9, 1973 at 8:56 AMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Recording deviceOval Office

On January 9, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:28 am and 8:56 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 836-004 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 836-4

Date: January 9, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:28 am and 8:56 am
Location: Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum.

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      The President’s birthday
             -Birthday greetings
             -Washington Times, Washington Post
             -Picture
                     -John McCrary [?]
                     -Wire service
             -Press relations
                     -Press conferences
                     -Ronald L. Ziegler

      Birthday wishes
             -White House staff

      Press relations
              -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                      -Press coverage
              -Tricia Nixon Cox
              -Monseigneur
                      -Translation
                      -California
              -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                      -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                      -Tricia Nixon Cox
                      -Press coverage
                      -News summaries
                      -1972 election
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                     Conversation No. 836-4 (cont’d)

       -President’s isolation
               -White House staff
                       -Dwight D. Eisenhower
       -Tricia Nixon Cox
               -John A. Volpe [?]
               -The President’s personality
                       -Press coverage

Camp David
      -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
      -Mrs. Nixon
      -Secret Service
              -Swimming pool
      -Moscow trip
              -Preston Bush
      -Delivery
              -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
      -Evening habits
              -Sleep

Vietnam settlement
      -Press coverage
              -Protocol
              -Henry A. Kissinger
                     -Arrival
      -Pessimism
              -Vietnamese
                     -Rationality
              -Option two
              -Melvin R. Laird
              -Prisoners of War [POWs]
              -Missing in action [MIAs]
              -Cease-fire
              -Laird
                     -Congress
              -North Vietnamese
                     -POWs
                     -Aid cut off to South Vietnam

Second-term reorganization
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                           Conversation No. 836-4 (cont’d)

             -Herbert G. Klein
                     -Article in Washington Post
                     -The President’s personal feelings
             -Paris negotiations
                     -Comparison

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uh... uh...
My first thought was that we should have a vacation from Grant by the wire service.
It was probably good.
It was the only vacation we were in.
I mean, all of our members of the county had their vacation and all of our services were set.
On the other hand, too, it could well be that we were in a big, long battle with the dress.
We were determined not to use the blood for full restaurants.
He's constantly seeking to manipulate my object from the point of view of our professor.
Very patient with the matter.
He even had to make an additional report, but that's not seen here in the transcript.
He's got a strong point.
He was very cold and distant in his attitudes.
that we must check on.
And Julie also made a rather interesting comment.
I agree with you.
It brought to mind the fact that both Julie and Pat, of course, go through a great deal, and because they need to do some recent press, and Carlos's press, and how ambitious we are,
I was discouraged by the fact that I had not heard any news or I had seen the question.
That was one of the things that changed my balance.
I realized that it was time to keep these up on the drive.
Actually, it was really early in the discussion.
And the staff was very good to help me with anything at all.
And they were very good to help me with anything at all.
And they were very good to help me with anything at all.
And they were very good to help me with anything at all.
And they were very good to help me with anything at all.
And they were very good to help me with anything at all.
And they were very good to help me with anything at all.
And they were very good to help me with anything at all.
And they were very good to help me with anything at all.
There's an interesting comment, too, that both spoke very well in the personal sense of our end, and said that we only wished that it was only puzzled by the press that we got this aspect of the president's personality out of the military.
It could well be, as I told you in the petition, that the people around both the cemetery are the baddies,
I'm sorry that I put you in such a way.
However, it does show that they are going to go into action.
I put out for the fire service girls.
Oh, I'm in the service.
They are working with an older man.
They stand on the beach.
One day, one of them heard a great evil about the Bible.
Their president is not moving to Georgia.
So he told her a future news.
The older man said, look, they're not going to move.
I live right here.
in Moscow, the director of the ballet.
There was a nice little Russian bush on the bridge of the valley.
He's really a very kind young man.
That's it.
We've got to travel there.
We've got to get out of the ditch as well.
Yeah, they're gone.
We've got to move from here.
I hope that not at all.
They've got a strong ditch in our factory tonight.
It's not like Julius.
Except that Julius is our rival army.
Sorry about that.
So it means that there needs to be a problem.
I don't feel it tonight.
I've got to find a way to stay up until about 11 o'clock each night.
And then two minutes by the end of the morning.
And I decided not to take the appointment at 8 or 8.30.
It's good.
I'm starting to turn around and get some lectures.
And I'm going to have to do it.
And I'm going to do so.
The problem is when I do that, my brain doesn't come back to it.
And I have a sense of fatigue the next day.
I must say that it was a long process to come up with the theory and all that I learned out of the paper this morning.
The protocol was icy.
This is not bothering me because I may have a warm reaction in these arrivals that may not progress.
Perhaps, I mean, exactly the opposite may bring a different result.
Perhaps what I'm facing
I've asked Mr. Buehler on this whole series of negotiations, and he has consistently been wrong.
He always has felt that the times have come to suffer, but he has always been speaking in terms of rationing, and the Vietnamese are basically not rationing.
In certain cases, we would probably have to go with option two, where this is probably during the setting up of the vaccine, we have the position to make the decision.
Now, we have the means to be able to handle it ourselves, and all those tools we have are very important, and we might need that.
This, of course, leads up totally to the idea of getting a ceasefire and, in other words, ending the war in South Texas, where Larry is buried, where he thought of those larger terms.
And, basically, we're going to try to go the same way.
He may turn off the bureau, but it will be very difficult for us, of course, to explain to the Congress
That we are not prepared.
It was very unfortunate, sorry, to be able to sign on her online, indicating that they were in a sensitive conversation.
I have to re-raise all the problems, especially because I do not want to have her hurt.
I think that there's this tendency sometimes, sorry, home is not created sensitive enough to the personal feelings of individuals like her who have not been in our reorganization group.
Second.
Ladies and gentlemen, there it is, Leroy.