Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 023-155
Date: Thursday, May 4, 1972 at 3:04 PM
Participants: White House operator; Kissinger, Henry A.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Connally, John B.; White House operator; Kissinger, Henry A.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Connally, John B.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-155

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[0:02] Yes, please.
[0:04] Secretary Conley, please, for Haldeman.
[0:06] Yes.
[0:07] I don't know whether I could be more of a way until tomorrow morning.
[0:18] All right, fine.
[0:19] I said that way.
[0:21] How do you go to New York?
[0:22] So, you know, whether you're all right, you can go at 530.
[0:25] You know, it's that late.
[0:27] You know, 530, you ought to be late.
[0:28] Well, I just didn't want to be important.
[0:30] I don't know.
[0:31] I don't know.
[0:50] I don't know if you ever talked to your history before.
[1:17] The way he loved her down the street.
[1:18] Tell them that.
[1:20] I told them to use that term.
[1:22] Listen, fucking Abrams, at least his retin-up military history know what Verdun was about.
[1:26] He knows the German and the French, the Frenchmen, Pétain and Buckingham, I mean.
[1:33] The German was right and the Frenchman was right.
[1:36] And the Germans lost the war.
[1:39] He was a great gentleman.
[1:41] Hello, John.
[1:44] Yes, sir.
[2:02] President wondered if you could come over to talk for a few minutes.
[2:05] Yes, sir.
[2:05] He's in the EOB office.
[2:07] Yes, sir.
[2:08] Right now.
[2:09] Okay.