Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 077-003
Date: Friday, September 24, 1971 at 9:53 AM
Participants: Shultz, George P.; Friedman, Milton; [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Cabinet Room
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/077-003

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[1:25:46] Well, I'll talk to you guys.
[1:25:49] I've got to go.
[1:26:09] Uh, first, if we could, there's some other way to do it other than bending the anti-axe, but a lot of lawyers are looking at every area, and there are only two or three, one of them.
[1:26:18] Okay.
[1:26:31] You said it right.
[1:26:32] It will be made here in a year and we don't know how long it's going to be.
[1:26:43] Our own people .
[1:26:44] .
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[1:26:44] . .
[1:28:11] I want to say that it's a beautiful day for some of the nice things.
[1:28:13] But there's a lot of work to be done.
[1:28:14] And we've got to tell you to be in time.
[1:28:15] We've got to tell you.
[1:28:15] We've got to tell you.
[1:28:16] We've got to tell you.
[1:28:16] We've got to tell you.
[1:28:17] We've got to tell you.
[1:29:03] in special relations with .
[1:29:04] This is America, where we .
[1:29:04] We've been talking about .
[1:29:05] So I should do that .
[1:29:05] And they built their base .
[1:29:06] And so I said, I should build .
[1:29:07] So you protect your base .
[1:29:32] But I just wanted to have this back-up, because the key to that is that, for sure, you know, uh, it's an honor to have the, uh, this is the first time this has happened.
[1:29:36] I'll be talking about it in a few hours.
[1:29:37] I'm actually going to have to do that in a few weeks.
[1:29:38] I'm going to have to do that in a few weeks.
[1:29:39] I'll be talking about it in a few weeks.
[1:30:23] Yeah, later that, it's spooky.
[1:30:23] Then it's, yeah, and it's a big, big, big, big, big, big, big,
[1:30:44] A very plain story.
[1:30:45] It was an unsolved problem that had to be straightened out.
[1:30:48] His answer was, politically, the government could not do anything.
[1:30:51] And I said to him, Mr. Minister, you are saying to us that the only course the United States can take is the unilateral one.
[1:30:59] And he began to crawl back on that, and he said he thought it was a horrible thing for us to do.
[1:31:04] That's where the conversation went.
[1:31:06] And it was a questioner.
[1:31:07] And it was a questioner.
[1:31:10] And it was a questioner.
[1:31:12] Well, no, I live with this too long, Dave, to get soft on it at this point.
[1:31:16] I know you, I want to be sure you have, as I asked the direct speech you sent me, to give a little number on the points that you've given over to you before the meeting, so you just have it back.
[1:31:26] Oh, good.
[1:31:26] Now, on the, on the October 15th action, I hope the President does it on October 15th, and I hope he doesn't give me the time to do it.
[1:31:41] I'd like to see him do it as part of his own authorship.
[1:31:44] Well, if he doesn't, then it is.
[1:31:46] I mentioned Bill, I mentioned the L.A. community group, and he didn't take the bill, he didn't take the list there.
[1:31:50] But the thing of it is, we have the President's direction.
[1:31:53] This is it now.
[1:31:54] I think we're done.
[1:32:13] I will have you in the service.