Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 009-021
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1971 at 12:37 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-021

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[0:01] One point that I may not have made clear, I do not want this second exercise I pointed out to be limited to new countries.
[0:12] It's to include all countries, see, that we get aid to.
[0:16] Like Yugoslavia, Romania, Ethiopia, for example, there's one.
[0:24] Ethiopia, Liberia.
[0:28] Did you call that a contested election?
[0:31] No, sir.
[0:31] Hell, they haven't had one there since the slaves went over.
[0:34] No, I told them to expand it to all countries.
[0:36] They just don't understand what I meant.
[0:37] The thing I want them to understand, A, the same...
[0:40] Vietnam can be described as a democratic process, but the question is, is the present leader there as a result of a contested election, a legitimately contested election?
[0:53] Not a ten-to-one affair.
[0:56] You can't even describe Mexico as that.
[0:59] No, that's correct, sir.
[1:00] Mexico is a one-party government.
[1:02] You can't describe Colombia as a contested election.
[1:05] That's right.
[1:06] You see my point?
[1:07] Give those as examples.
[1:08] Mexico is not contested.
[1:09] I'm not going to put the countries out, but I'm going to get the number out, see?
[1:13] Mexico is not contested.
[1:15] Colombia is not contested.
[1:17] Each party ships it back and forth, see?
[1:20] Fine, sir.
[1:21] Okay.
[1:21] Yes, sir.
[1:22] Bye.