Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 865-026
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 1973 at 4:23 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/865-026

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[0:00] oh i wanted to ask you uh about your uh reading all right yes sir i saw something in there i think that was earlier uh before the brief you see i didn't read until late oh actually that was the uh
[0:21] early but there's nothing new that we have i think there's nothing since we talked about this since we talked and i made all the points again that uh well i just want to be sure that i think before i go there's nothing new on the uh in terms of what they're saying and rogers it was clear
[0:48] was waiting instructions as to how he should proceed there, but I think, you know, he's in good shape.
[0:55] But we heard nothing else from the people, and don't think we wanted to... That's why I wondered about their headline, because what was their stick of terms about?
[1:06] What was their story on?
[1:08] It was based on the comments that the...
[1:11] Louie Tinn had made, you know, the North Vietnamese spokesman about ceasefire violations.
[1:20] They had said it before.
[1:22] They had said it before, yes.
[1:25] And, you see, it also was, I think, hypoed a little bit after the meeting with the four foreign ministers.
[1:33] Madame Ben came out of that meeting, and Trinh came out of that meeting, and
[1:45] whether or not they've made any progress and they said we can make no comment about it and madame ben i said i think said there's nothing that there's no progress that's been made or something along that line and that came out of paris earlier today and that's probably what the star picked up because in one of the marsha industry portraits that apparently the north of the other side instead of their terms we're carrying the afternoon in terms of
[2:11] The fact that the North Vietnamese have assured that the United States is going to release them.
[2:17] I knew what that was.
[2:18] I'm all for that.
[2:19] I've not heard the evidence so much.
[2:22] But I think we've got it.
[2:23] Right.
[2:25] We've got it, it seems to me at least, from the strategy standpoint, because now they've got a movement pretty heavy that they've assured to release the prisoners in accordance with the agreement, which means they would release them soon.
[2:45] No, but from the news standpoint now.
[2:50] That's right.