Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 860-004
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 1973 at 3:12 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Stennis, John C.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/860-004

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[0:06] I'm just checking in to see how you're feeling this week.
[0:11] Yeah.
[0:13] Yeah, yes.
[0:14] Well, it's coming along all right, isn't it?
[0:17] Right.
[0:19] Right.
[0:19] Good.
[0:20] Good.
[0:21] Good.
[0:22] You're good.
[0:26] Well, we were glad to see that lot of ceasefire.
[0:29] That's okay.
[0:30] It's okay.
[0:30] All these things are very fragile because these comments can't be trusted, but
[0:35] At least the Laos needs fire like the Vietnam one.
[0:38] It means we will be able to discontinue our air attacks there, which is good.
[0:43] And I'm getting quite lost.
[0:47] Well, another thing, too, it'll save us a little money that we'll probably have to use for other purposes.
[0:53] Right.
[0:55] Yeah.
[0:59] Yeah, we thought we'd get it a little sooner, but they're about a week late, but they are fighting an argument.
[1:04] We're going to have interest, what we call sort of an office, let them have an office here simply.
[1:25] for discussion, and we'll have one in the game.
[1:26] Now, that will not in any way differentiate upon the Taiwanese.
[1:31] It's not recognition, but you know there are countries where you do not have relations, where you have sort of a...
[1:39] The purpose of this will be to trade matters and that sort of thing.
[1:43] So that'll be announced tomorrow.
[1:45] But more important than that, we got very good assurance of cooperation from them on Southeast Asia.
[1:52] How they will, what they will do, we don't know.
[1:54] We have reasons that they'll help.
[1:57] He won't say too much about that publicly, but privately, the assurances are very good.
[2:01] A couple other things he asked that he will announce tomorrow.
[2:05] They have two flyers, you know, in China.
[2:08] Now they will be released in the next three weeks.
[2:11] And then they also have this thought of now.
[2:15] and they say the last half of this year they're going to examine his sentence.
[2:23] That's all we'll announce.
[2:47] It's also another defense plan, you know, to keep the Russians a little loose, too.
[2:50] You know?
[2:51] Yeah.
[2:52] Well, well, well, I appreciate it for this.
[3:01] Thank you for coming along.
[3:03] Okay, bye.