We have not yet seen the text of the reported agreement, so we cannot comment in detail.

The United States welcomes this most recent and heartening forward step which strengthens the prospects for a new era of peace, stability, and cooperation in the Subcontinent.

India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have demonstrated both their willingness and their ability to work out problems on their own.

I said, 'As you look at this,' I said, 'isn't it quite obvious, first, that if it is going to have any chance to succeed, that these individuals aren't going to sit there in jail for 4 years?

And now, we will go to the questions.

No, as far as my defense is concerned, I make it myself.

I asked him to listen to it in order to be sure that as far as any allegations that had been made by Mr. Dean with regard to that conversation is concerned, I wanted to be sure that we were absolutely correct in our response.

I met the judge briefly--after all, I had appointed him to the position--I met him for perhaps one minute outside my door here in full view of the whole White House Staff and everybody else who wanted to see.

I would if I had violated the oath of office.

I certainly do.

No; the answer to the third question is that it is true that as far as the capacity to govern is concerned, that to be under a constant barrage--12 to 15 minutes a night on each of the three major networks for 4 months--tends to raise some questions in the people's mind with regard to the President, and it may raise some questions with regard to the capacity to govern.

But as far as the statement that Mr. Warren has made with regard to the President's .position of complying with a definitive order of the Supreme Court is concerned, that statement stands.

Certainly not, and certainly not to the Cambodian people, because as far as this area is concerned, the area of approximately I O miles which was bombed during this period, no Cambodians had been in it for years.

That is why we are standing firm on the proposition that we will not agree to the Senate committee's desire to have, for example, its chief investigator listen to the tapes, or the Special Prosecutor's desire to hear the tapes.

I shall nominate and send to the Senate for confirmation the name of Dr. Henry Kissinger.

And to talk about indictment and to talk about resignation, even now--I am not questioning your right to ask the question, understand but for me to talk about it would be totally inappropriate, and I make no comment in answer to that question.

I accept it all.

I would suggest that where the shoe fits, people should wear it.