Transcript
of Telephone Conversation Between President Nixon and
His Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)/1/
/1/
Source: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Kissinger Papers, Box 368,
Telephone Conversations, Chronological File. No classification marking. The
call was placed by the President to Kissinger in the White House.
P: Working
late?
K: Yes, I
am going over some papers.
P:
Anything new?
K: Nothing
of any consequence.
P: A lot
of stuff to catch up on I guess.
K: There's
a certain routine.
P:
Terrific, I know.
K: It
keeps piling up. There's still a lot of congratulatory mail/2/ coming in.
/2/ The mail was in response to Kissinger's trip to
P: Good,
good. You know the one thing we want to do is to be fair-we will probably be
getting a question on the India/Pakistan thing. We really want to-we sure don't
want to hurt our friends.
K: No, we
certainly don't. Being fed by the-.
P: I know,
the Indians. Awful but they are getting some assistance from Keating, of
course.
K: A lot
of assistance; he is practically their mouthpiece.
P: I
talked to Bill [
K: He has
gone native. As I told you, I saw the Indians and listened to their complaints
and Keating kept interrupting and saying but you forgot to mention this or
that.
P: I think
we ought to get moving on him; he is 71 years old.
K: Yes,
but he would do us a lot of damage now. We should wait until things quiet down.
P: Two or
3 months and then I think we ought to do it.
K: I will
make it clear with the Indians that there isn't going to be a war.
P: They
had had this plan-covers planned [sic] long before this.
K: They
have certainly been more respectful since this trip. I have asked Sisco to prepare a scenario of how we could handle this
situation. I will talk to Farland tomorrow; and
within this next week we will have a proposal for you. The problem-no military
aid to
P: After
all they have done, we just aren't going to let that happen.
K: Right,
right.
[Omitted
here is discussion unrelated to