Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 030-017
Date: Thursday, September 21, 1972 at 7:42 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/030-017

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[0:01] Hello.
[0:04] Hello.
[0:04] Mr. President.
[0:06] Oh, Henry, I don't want to irritate your evening, but I was not satisfied with the report on Uganda, which came from State.
[0:13] Right.
[0:14] Now, the man we have there is Milady, who is a sweet guy.
[0:17] He's a great supporter of ours, but totally African, all African, doesn't understand.
[0:22] Now, I know him, Tom Milady, know him well.
[0:24] Second point,
[0:25] I want harder action taken.
[0:27] I want everybody from America evacuated as soon as possible.
[0:32] I want hard action.
[0:33] And second, I want to get that Burundi ambassador's ass out of there right now.
[0:37] And that's an order.
[0:39] I think you would agree, Henry, we have really had a double standard on this thing.
[0:46] And the African division, you know, I mean, do we care when they kill a poor goddamn Pakistani?
[0:52] Do we care when these damn Africans eat 100,000 people?
[0:56] I mean, it's really gone too far.
[0:57] What do you think?
[0:58] I couldn't agree more.
[0:59] All right.
[1:00] You get out of the Talmud.
[1:02] Now, M'lady's report saying, well, no, he said, well, no Americans have been arrested, and there are a few U.K.s that have been killed.
[1:10] Well, God damn it, if a Britisher is killed, I mean, call M'lady back for instructions.
[1:15] Let's call him right back.
[1:16] How about that?
[1:17] We can do both of those.
[1:18] All right.
[1:18] You get M'lady's ass right back here.
[1:20] Right.
[1:21] Okay.
[1:22] Right.
[1:22] All right.
[1:22] Bye.