On January 31, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Eisaku Sato, Nobuhiko Ushiba, Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, Tatsuo Arima, James J. Wickel, Henry A. Kissinger, Toshio Kimura, Sadanori Yamanaka, Minoru Kusuda, and Ryohei Murato met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:10 pm to 4:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 845-006 of the White House Tapes.
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Hello, how are you?
Well, we're still here.
Well, we're still here.
Why don't you want to do it?
Why don't you want to do it?
Why don't you want to do it?
Why don't you want to do it?
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Oh God, I can't move it.
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
First of all, I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for hearing me say all the things you've been doing to me.
God, I love you.
God, I love you.
God, I love you.
God, I love you.
God, I love you.
God, I love you.
Thank you.
Although it was not in the original schedule of the ceremony, we just found out we can't drop it too far.
But I really felt it was meant to be for the President of the United States and also for the United States.
I'm sorry that we don't get that.
And I just wanted my voice to be heard.
I'm sorry that we don't get that.
I'm sorry that we don't get that.
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There's a lot of people who like to read that, but it's kind of bad.
But I think it's a good thing.
It's a good thing.
It's a good thing.
It's a good thing.
It's a good thing.
It's a good thing.
It's a good thing.
It's been a long time since I've been in a place like this.
It's been a long time.
It's been a long time.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, it was a major issue.
Uh, we met, uh, in Japanese, uh, the, the watershed, uh, the old Mr. Long, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
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At this time, I was in New York, and I was invited to go to the university where I majored.
But I told him, I told him, I told him, I told him, how great that university was.
You have to be an American to go to the university.
Well, come on out, please.
Go to your home country.
Go to your home country.
There's been a lot of people who can't get by now.
Some of them, you know, they're in focus.
They might be in a moment.
I don't know.
Well, Japan has a lot of people who can't get by now.
Japan has a lot of people who can't get by now.
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I don't know what that was.
I don't know what that was.
I don't know what that was.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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I called him to discuss the plan for, you know, well, Trump.
And I told him that the talks were going to begin at the end of August conference, that we would make progress and the conference would begin.
Then on the 15th of January, which is the 15th, well, the inauguration, and a week before the conference,
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay.
Okay.
And two days later, that, uh, saw the papers and they came out of Boston Bridge.
So, you know, before he died, and, like, well, that's not really when he died.
It was, uh, I think that, uh, he was contained after, uh, I don't really know, before he died.
And I, uh, I don't know.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for watching.
So that's just, you know, BSD, both BSDs are even more difficult to negotiate with rather than our department.
That's not it.
That's not it.
That's not it.
That's not it.
That's not it.
Thank you.
I told her not to be suggestive to her.
But the Japanese didn't trust her.
They trusted her.
But the Japanese didn't trust her.
But the Japanese didn't trust her.
The Japanese didn't trust her.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The problem is that many of our friends in the world, including many of our allies,
It was absolutely critical for the United States to end the war in an honorable way.
There were many of them in this country.
who concurred in the political act to...
Uh, let's all be in line without a break.
Uh, at the White House, Johnson, Kennedy, the, uh, Charter Board.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
I'm sure that the, what we call the, the so-called installments in Japan, in France, in Australia, in many other countries in the life of the United States,
who were so quick to criticize the United States when we were attempting to raise the tariff in the back of the conversation when we had a conference, and who urged us to...
I'm sure many of those people would as well.
It was in January 1969, four years ago, an action that would have said that we don't want a war.
And so we will get out and let the Congress take it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I know, I'm so glad to hear it's off.
I'm glad to hear it's off.
I'm glad to hear it's off.
I'm glad to hear it's off.
On the other hand, more and more Sunday leaders, my friends, Prime Minister Sacco, have always stated that how the United States is good by its commitment with
a small ally, South Vietnam, would be an indication of whether or not the United States would be an ally that we rely upon, where the great Congressors and their wife and family, and friends, etc.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I'm sure...
I know many things are going to come to you.
And I see with that stuff, you know, good things are going to come to you.
And I also need to, you know, show my life.
I need to inspire.
I need to be able to create.
I need to create.
So we today are going to see how we're going to do it.
How we're going to show you what we're going to do.
My name is Michael Kropotolitsyn.
I'm from America.
I'm from the United States.
My name is Michael Kropotolitsyn.
I'm from the United States.
My name is Michael Kropotolitsyn.
I'm from the United States.
Because if the United States proves to be an independent ally with a small country, it will not be an independent ally with a large country and a large country.
like Japan.
And that is why it is very important to demonstrate the world that the United States was an incredible ally and would not settle for a deterrent crisis, that we would not
because of the pressures of the eradication and the that we create around our allies.
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It's also very important for potential adversaries in the world, particularly the great powers.
who are much closer geographically to Japan than we are.
It is very important for them to know that the United States will stand by its commitment, that we will, that if we are threatened, or if one of our allies is threatened, that we stand by our commitment.
It is only that that the war is voided.
By that I do not mean that we must listen and say, you know, restrain the decision that the United States will not do anything.
But I do say that one of many reasons the states have made to the effect that the nation of the United States will not do this, will not do that,
That only encourages your adversaries to engage in pressure.
And we feel it's very important that this critical time in our relations with the other great powers of the world go to their honor along that line.
It's very important that all of us connect together and to
so that they may not be, by their calculation, trying to take advantage and press on the assumption that we will not react.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The car is in the middle of the field.
The car is in the middle of the field.
The car is in the middle of the field.
The car is in the middle of the field.
The car is in the middle of the field.
The car is in the middle of the field.
Because of the whole deal of food, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China decided to support the United States.
So they could not take the United States out of the world.
They could not take the United States out of the world.
You know, we could not, we do not have quite the unity of faith on the subject.
And, the Japanese call it , you know, ties tied up with Soviet Union.
Nor with the Chinese.
And, we could not understand the world.
We find ourselves all the more difficult to find a home, that's the whole thing.
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We're in a difficult time because there are many conferences and issues within the Parliament.
We are working on it.
The President of the Parliament, he came back from China having normalised our relations with the Government of Beijing.
It is very clear that the Chaldean government will firmly maintain our faith in the people of the United States.
And also, I don't know if it's a mistake to raise against the program.
It says that it will carry out the form of the Chaldean government.
Therefore, I say that it is given, it is given just time.
Time is the time that will be made.
There is not much that can be done.
So, all of us, all of us, all of us, all of us,
Some of the violence that I've seen in the last few years, I've seen in the last few years, I've seen in the last few years, I've seen in the last few years, I've seen in the last few years,
I feel very fortunate to be able to go to this location to talk to you.
And also, I feel very pleased to be able to go to this location to talk to you.
And I feel very fortunate to be able to go to this location to talk to you.
And I'm also very grateful to you for having made a very nice reference to me on this station.
Like the relationship with the Prime Minister, Prime Minister Soto and I have had, has been the key factor in building a total dual focus on Japanese-Iran relations and Japanese-Iran relations.
I'm very fortunate to have been
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Thank you all for speaking to us.
I want to thank all of you for coming.
I want to thank all of you for coming.
I want to thank all of you for coming.
We have to realize that, from what you've got told us very well, the office of the left in all nations,
whether in Japan or the United States or Western Europe, I'll share again, are the same attitudes towards the system of life that we have built around the world as we should have as a part.
They oppose those elections because they frankly want to change it to take place, which either they and I want to happen.
Thank you.
Okay, so I need to talk about one other thing I've got to look at.
One of the things we've got to talk about is the concept of the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States.
Whether it's your country, Britain, the United States, they are not as confident.
There are the socialists, Matthews, Bush, and all, but many of the less discounted, who passionately believe that the wicked Jesus is weak, that the wicked Jesus is totally disarmed.
uh, for those, for the British, for those in the Army.
And the legacy is to, uh, uh, this back all the way.
Uh, this, of course, is a, uh, uh, is a nice dream.
Uh, and I think this is all welcome.
Uh, if there were not other nations in the world who had everybody in it,
It is my view that what is in the way of teaching, and I know it is primarily part of what we do, is not that we are armed with bristles of the teeth threatening other nations, but that as a restraint on the potential aggressors in the world, and there are still some, as a restraint on them,
like the United States, the United States, the rest of the nation of Europe, who are not prepared to base money on that, who have no idea about the force we must make in our country, that the best guarantee is peace.
is as a strength, not only in a military sense, each according to his abilities, but also as a strength which is greater because of the alliances that we have.
That's why in the Asian version, this is the Japanese-American alliance of the world.
So it seems that if we, uh, if we, uh, if we're, if we fall, uh, uh, line of support, uh, in the United States, or, you know, could we, uh, or so-called, uh, these, uh, the United States is available, uh, then the nature of either or,
or surrender to God.
He's going to get them, isn't he?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
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I don't know.
You saw the population at the time.
I actually spoke to them, and I really agree with you.
The, uh, I want to say a personal fact, too, that I, uh, have always appreciated the fact that, uh, the year never got lost.
I made a decision to have, like, uh, both, uh, humanities, biology, and studies.
And I think about how, as we sit here, the fact that those personal bonds of friendship that we saw over the years have enormously contributed to the breakthrough that we have made through the relationship between our two countries, which is the angle that all of that looks at.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
There are more and more practices in the life in the arts, but still there are not as many options as it is.
I don't know if it's true or not.
I don't know if it's true.
I don't know if it's true.
I don't know if it's true.
I don't know if it's true.
So I thought, we shall try.
I thought that I would try to, uh, follow the trends of my father.
And I'm sure that my father would be able to, uh, respond to, uh, to each of the teachings that he's written.
And I don't have a chance.
I'm certain of the thing that I'm going to create in my life.
And that's, uh, our love, our faith.
So it is certainly one of those things.
What, what might you want to accomplish?
Where should we turn our attention to?
Thank you very much.
I would like to extend my congratulations to you on your birthday.
Also, according to the Javi Zulia, you have come to the age where your life is renewed.
This is your life being truly renewed.
And I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
God, I mean, I'm not dead.
What did I do to go out on a very, uh, very, uh...
Thank you.
Thank you.
I've been thinking about it for a long time.
I've been thinking about it for a long time.
I've been thinking about it for a long time.
I've been thinking about it for a long time.
I don't know.
I don't know.
That's right.
He's our minister, you know, from Hawaii.
And he doesn't have this.
I want to go all the way back, okay?
That's what I'm going to do.
I want to go all the way back.
That's right.
This is my day here.
I think I just want to make an impression of you.
We talked over here.
We're just going to turn it off.
This is a big weapon.
I saw it.
I saw it.
I saw it.
I saw it.
Thank you.