Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 012-023
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1971 at 6:10 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/012-023

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[0:01] hello mr ray price ray sir i uh just read this uh cook draft which i think has is a fine quality there's one thing that i'd like to have you have him rewrite in terms of and it'll require some uh a bit of cutting i'm not cutting but changing i i don't want to go so far and he we use it three times in the speech of the
[0:28] the last generation of veterans and so forth and so on.
[0:31] I think it's, I have said, of course, the idea, you know, in one interview that this could be the last war or something.
[0:37] But on the other hand, I think we could be held up to saying, well, we're holding out a false hope and so forth and so on.
[0:44] You know what I mean?
[0:44] And so what the hell do we have?
[0:47] So I think if he could just tinker and
[0:52] And you know what I mean, those three areas sort of take that out so it doesn't hold that high of hope.
[1:00] A lasting peace or a generation of peace, that sort of thing.
[1:04] But I think, well, it makes a nice balance to say the first generation of veterans, the last generation, that's all that.
[1:12] But I just think it goes a bit too far in the present context.
[1:17] All right.
[1:18] But otherwise, I think it's fine.
[1:19] It's got a lot of very eloquent and so forth.
[1:22] Okay.
[1:23] That's good.
[1:23] Bye.