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Conversation 316-015

TapeTape 316StartTuesday, January 25, 1972 at 5:30 PMEndTuesday, January 25, 1972 at 5:32 PMTape start time02:37:37Tape end time02:38:43ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Cox, Tricia NixonRecording deviceOld Executive Office Building
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On January 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:30 pm to 5:32 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 316-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 316-15

Date: January 25, 1972
Time: 5:30 pm - 5:32 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 19-60; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
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If the enemy's answer to our peaceful plan is to step up, step up their attacks, I shall be my, step up their attacks.
I shall fully meet my responsibility as commander-in-chief of our armed forces to protect our remaining forces.
If our peace offer is to step up their military attacks, I shall fully take my responsibility as commander-in-chief of our armed forces to protect our remaining forces.
We do not prefer this course of action.
We want to end the war, not only for America, but for all people under the China.
The plan I have proposed tonight accomplishes that goal.
Some of our citizens have become impressed with the thinking that whatever our government says must be false and whatever our enemies say must be true.
The record I reveal tonight reveals the contrary.
We can now demonstrate publicly what we have long been demonstrated prior.
And America has taken the initiative, not only to end our participation in the war, but to end the war itself.
This has been the longest, most difficult war in our history.
Honest and patriotic Americans have disagreed as to whether we should have become involved at all nine years ago, and there has been disagreement on the content of the war.
The proposal I have made tonight is one on which we can all agree.
Let us unite now in our search for peace, a peace that is fair to both sides, a peace that can last.
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