On June 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 2:29 pm and 2:45 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 134-010 of the White House Tapes.
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Hello?
Yes, please.
Mr. Stein, please.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Mr. Stein is up.
Yeah.
Hello?
Herb, I wondered if you would pass one thing to Burns before he gets to Argentina.
Yeah.
He raised the point about Argentine beef coming in, and I said, sure, that's great.
I may explore it with him because we were going to record it so far.
The fact of the matter is that then Mutt says the reason it doesn't come in is because it has open mouth disease.
Well, of course, I'm inclined to think there's a lot of phoniness in that.
The British take it and, you know, in the French, everybody eats Argentine beef except us.
But that apparently is a very, very...
tough issue over there.
So what I'd like, I just want to be sure that Burns, when he goes down there, is aware of the problem and doesn't tell the Argentine government, look, we're going to start taking your beef, and then all hell will break loose here.
So if you would do a little check with Butts, and then you just cable Arthur someplace, or talk to him on the phone and pass the word.
Would you do that, please?
Yes, sir.
Good.
Okay.
Thank you.