Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 188-009
Date: Thursday, May 18, 1972 at 5:56 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/188-009

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[0:00] i want to be sure that the responsibility while we are gone to see that the best editorials columns and
[0:23] to be able to get up a good letter today before he leaves, if you get on it right away.
[0:47] Counterbalance.
[0:52] Secondly, the line of stories appearing in the New York Times, Tony Lewis, we have to do far more than we are presently doing with regard to what is happening tomorrow in North Vietnam.
[1:12] I want you to find a way through Helms to have leaked out
[2:27] we got every possible leak or story that we got now.
[2:38] We have made that responsibility working with whoever is left here on the news side.
[2:46] The Connelly trip is vitally important, not only from the standpoint of
[2:57] but also in terms of, I believe, the good it could do in the foreign policy period.
[3:04] What I have in mind is that he should go first class with the presidential pipe aircraft to four countries in Latin America, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia.
[3:21] To that, I think it might be well for him to go to Australia and New Zealand, two countries.
[3:28] who sturdily support us, and we still can't get attention because they are so far away.
[3:36] Another country further on around, wish we could stop that.
[3:42] On the way back, it might not be too bad an idea, period.
[3:48] This is a way out suggestion, but maybe this is the time for,
[4:06] The first thing is to get some recommendations and meet by the end of the day, Friday, so that I can talk Conley now about his trip.
[4:17] It's my view, it is my view, that he and Mrs. Conley should leave on the trip days after we return, period.
[4:28] Even though Schultz may not be confirmed at that time, he will have been thoroughly indoctrinated
[4:34] and uh congress leaving as a secondary the treasury might have the nanny benefit very a lot of people on the state or other about this thing just give me your own recommendation later today