Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 019-084
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 1972 at 10:10 PM
Participants: Kissinger, Henry A.; Mitchell, John N.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-084

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Henry?
[0:02] John.
[0:03] How are you, sir?
[0:04] I'm here with the president and we wanted to get your judgment on how it went.
[0:23] I think it went very, very well.
[0:24] I don't think there's any question about it.
[0:25] And I've been listening to these people fumble, fumble, fumble, like Fulbright is doing on the television now.
[0:27] They can't talk to it.
[0:27] They're just taking so far back that they're going back to the same old rhetoric of themselves.
[0:29] Really?
[0:30] Is Fulbright trying to piss on it?
[0:44] Good.
[0:46] Well, I think that's really good news.
[1:12] We get the same reports from all over the place.
[1:15] I would believe it.
[1:16] and Alderman say the reaction is 92% positive.
[1:21] You can't do much better than that.
[1:28] Not yet, but I think if it keeps going like this, we'll just swamp it.
[1:37] Well, they can't piss on something that's building that much momentum.
[1:41] Well, that was a very good piece of advice of yours.
[1:54] We got them all into the room.
[1:55] We got all the men in it.
[1:57] And I just said, we've all got to work together on this.
[2:00] This is the line I'm going to follow.
[2:02] Do you have any regrets?
[2:04] And what line are you going to follow?
[2:06] And let's all work together on this.
[2:09] So, no, no, it was a brilliant idea because, you know, without it, they would have done anything.
[2:19] If they do it now, they have no excuse that there wasn't a meeting, that they couldn't express their views, and that they weren't told.
[2:31] Yeah.
[2:35] We hope so.
[2:35] Good, John.
[2:38] Thank you.
[2:59] Thank you.