Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 003-134
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1971 at 3:12 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-134

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[0:00] Yes, sir.
[0:02] Did Andrews work on the West Point thing?
[0:06] Yes, he did.
[0:08] Yeah.
[0:08] Is he there today?
[0:09] Yes, he is.
[0:11] I did some work on it last night.
[0:13] I had sort of a new idea as to a cut of the thing.
[0:18] And I was wondering, let's see, what time do you have now, 3.15?
[0:22] 3.15.
[0:23] If you could come over in about 20 minutes, could you, to the...
[0:28] and then I'll just give you come with him so that he can sort of get the feel as to how I think about it and Here's let me tell you that my concern right that my concern is and Versus not with regard to what is written, which I think is a damn good job.
[0:44] My concern is that What is written in terms of lead and everything else is almost totally
[0:53] vietnam and uh nixon defends policy in vietnam etc etc etc you know now uh i'm not gonna run away from it and i will of course uh make a mention but i think that uh i think there needs to be a rather different view than uh that presented at this time i think the emphasis has got to be in fact my whole idea and i i mean pete peterson whom i want if you had to talk with him lately
[1:22] I want you to sit down and talk with him.
[1:24] His whole theory, you know, about the foreign economic policy.
[1:28] What do we do after Vietnam?
[1:29] What's this nation going to be?
[1:30] What's it going to develop?
[1:31] He's thinking far beyond economics, as a matter of fact.
[1:34] Now, in the military field and the diplomatic field and the other fields, the question is, I mean, after Vietnam, you know, as a matter of fact, of course, it goes clear back to our foreign affairs article, Asia after Vietnam, you know.
[1:52] Now, I would like to cast most everything we do at this time in those terms.
[2:00] Good.
[2:00] In those terms of, as you see, it fits the Soviet initiative, it fits the Chinese initiative.
[2:05] Some of these won't come off, but some may.
[2:08] It fits the transition from war to peace.
[2:11] It fits their economic problems and a lot of other things.
[2:16] Mm-hmm.
[2:16] See?
[2:17] Good.
[2:18] I like that very much.
[2:18] Yeah.
[2:19] All right.
[2:20] About 20 minutes.
[2:20] All right, sir.
[2:21] That's in the Oval Office, right?
[2:23] EOB.
[2:24] EOB.