Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 022-107
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 1972 at 1:12 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-107

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[0:00] Mr. President?
[0:02] Yeah.
[0:02] Yeah, they want to know if they can go ahead on the leadership meeting with an agenda which is essentially defense briefing by Mel Laird and Henry Kissinger.
[0:11] That would be...
[0:12] But I don't think I want Rogers there.
[0:16] Okay.
[0:17] You know what I mean?
[0:18] Yeah, yeah, I do.
[0:20] I would prefer, frankly, even not to have Mel.
[0:24] You see what I mean?
[0:25] If you have him, you have to have Rogers.
[0:27] Yeah, you do.
[0:27] All right, and just let Henry carry the ball.
[0:29] I think Henry should do it.
[0:30] Let Henry do the briefing, because the purpose is a pep talk.
[0:33] I see.
[0:34] And let Henry do the briefing.
[0:36] Okay, we'll set up that way.
[0:37] Then wild cards, I'd like to ask some of the committee chairmen, John Tower, Frelinghuysen, and Bill Menchel and George Aiken.
[0:49] Okay, one more question, sir.
[0:51] Would it be all right if...
[0:53] Cora Logos and McGregor attend this 5 p.m. meeting, or would you prefer they not?
[1:00] No, I think the China thing has to be sort of separated from congressional relations there.
[1:07] uh henry will be there and that means that he'll he can brief them on the damn thing all right i i wouldn't mind normally but i think since it's on china that they should feel they can talk very freely okay i'll make sure they understand that fine and you can tell them that henry will fill them in on the meeting but that yeah we want them to feel it's not it's a little separate from politics all right i understand but there will be pictures of course cameras are to be allowed and so forth okay all right good thank you