Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 894-003
Date: Thursday, April 12, 1973 at 9:55 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/894-003

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[0:00] I'm just going to grab one.
[0:02] Sure.
[0:02] I'm going to do it.
[0:04] Uh, if, uh...
[0:05] I don't plan to say this.
[0:07] If you ask, should we begin with a briefing and then... For you.
[0:11] Yes.
[0:12] I didn't put that in this paper, just... That gives everyone...
[0:18] Please, please.
[0:20] There isn't that much controversy.
[0:21] Well, it's just because I'm sure you listen.
[0:26] That's right.
[0:27] I would listen and...
[0:29] I wouldn't give any instructions, because the only contentious islands are tricky ones, which I'd like to have a chance to discuss with you.
[0:37] Sometime today, we haven't had the chance, now.
[0:41] I'd like to discuss with you the problem of... ...such as the inflamed state of the Middle East after the Lebanese raids.
[0:58] On the other hand, did we let these guys drive us off?
[1:00] Let me ask you this, and let's come back to that a little later.
[1:05] On this meeting, with regard to the schedule on Monday, I get the thing, I was a little bit concerned about it, so I revealed to you completely a little too much that by putting in three or four hours in parking, that, you know, the so-called meeting with the dealership.
[1:24] It doesn't have to be done.
[1:25] It can't be done Monday anyway.
[1:26] We have to move it to Wednesday.
[1:27] Because it passed over, we forgot about it.
[1:29] Oh.
[1:29] Wednesday or Thursday.
[1:30] Wednesday, we're going to send it out, isn't it?
[1:33] Yeah.
[1:33] No, honey.
[1:34] I mean, could you, is it Wednesday?
[1:35] Nothing is going to happen in the Congress and so forth.
[1:41] The Mike's going to get frozen in our day before the end of it.
[1:48] Could we, if we could do it, I'd like to do it in a very, I don't want to, I don't want to do too much.
[1:54] I know these two procedures, if you know them too, and Christel Dragon, 18 other different subjects and all and so forth.
[2:00] But you don't have to do it at all.
[2:02] I was thinking, I think I ought to do the congressional leaders because I don't want them in the eyes and I'm saying, this is at a loss.
[2:09] But I should do it for a half hour only.
[2:12] It should be a half hour.
[2:13] With the leaders, would you anticipate we could do that in a very short space of time?
[2:20] I would think so.
[2:22] I would insist.
[2:23] I mean, you could just say you only have half an hour then, Garment, or I could stay behind.
[2:29] I'm not too eager to meet with the Jewish leaders, but for once we could do it.
[2:33] For once you could, because this doesn't call something at the highest level.
[2:37] That's right.
[2:39] I thought it was a good way to make some points, particularly if we had to get up with Israel later on.
[2:46] Would you tell, be sure that you tell Steve that it's not Monday because he was trying to work on Monday.
[2:52] Monday won't work because Thursday would probably be the best.
[2:56] Thursday would probably be the best if that's convenient for you.
[3:00] I don't know whether we can get to Congress.
[3:07] Thursday, 10 o'clock.
[3:11] We don't want to have
[3:15] Do you have any, uh, do you have any, uh, do you have any, uh, do you have any, uh, do you have any, uh,
[3:31] And I'm seeing him again on Saturday.
[3:34] I think I've now broken the back of the salt, so we're pretty sure that the salt is going to give it there.
[3:40] I think the thing to do is to break the back of the tree.
[3:45] We automatically don't have that tree.
[3:47] So I think, Mr. President, that we're going to have to make sure that we get, I mean, by true religion, we'll take a lot of the focus back to part of the public community as well.
[3:56] Sure.