Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 246-021
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 1971 at 4:10 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/246-021

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[0:02] Hi.
[0:04] Uh, you'll, by the way, you can talk.
[0:07] Yeah.
[0:08] I, uh, was looking here for the last, uh, we've got too long, it's difficult, and Ted writes, uh, uh, it's about page 14, I imagine, of your, uh, uh, and I'm just wondering about striking the paragraph, I'm sure you can.
[0:30] Yeah.
[0:30] Yeah.
[0:31] This question, have you got the section, that is why I have chartered the course tonight?
[0:38] You got that?
[0:39] That's why I've chartered the course, I've chartered the night.
[0:48] And it's the way that we start to discuss for an hour on the word of God.
[0:49] And the way that we repeat it.
[0:50] You go on and say, it's the next paragraph that I may be.
[0:53] You see, the Course, we've talked so much about everything being so hard.
[1:01] The Course for the Fallen is not easy one, and I have to tell you, the Daily Test, the Vanguards, the Vengeance of all the rules of our spirit, has been a long and difficult trial for us.
[1:09] Would you mind taking that up?
[1:11] Why?
[1:11] Because later on, I use law in the next program.
[1:22] Or do you feel it adds something?
[1:25] I just don't know.
[1:28] We haven't really covered that.
[1:34] Let's take our sentence up.
[1:38] You can go directly into the next room.
[1:54] There's no problem with that.
[1:57] That's where you go.
[1:57] You can easily go tear it apart, do I?
[1:59] I'm sure you're nice and kind.
[2:00] In other words, you're ending in a totally upbeat thing, rather than on a going back again over the fact that things are tough.
[2:06] I just think that it's either
[2:08] That makes it tough.
[2:11] I talk about the boys that die.
[2:14] Why don't we take this up?
[2:16] Of course, we're following it.
[2:19] And I told Rose to check it.
[2:21] We've got to hold it.
[2:23] But is she doing it or not?
[2:25] Whoever is doing it, I think she's doing it.
[2:28] It hasn't been given to them.
[2:29] By God, it hasn't been given to them.
[2:33] She does it.
[2:34] That's only for a third of the time.
[2:47] All right, take the paragraph out.
[2:54] Of course, if you're following, it's not an easy one.
[2:55] I just think let's keep it on an upbeat note as we go in there.
[2:57] But you see, because of the conclusion, I've got a lot of, you know, business about sorrow there.
[2:59] You know, people don't want to hear about sorrow.
[3:01] It doesn't matter so much.
[3:02] They want to hear something about it.
[3:03] All right, fine.
[3:03] And I will... You can call Rose and tell her to cut.
[3:06] Of course we are following.
[3:08] I've already alerted her.
[3:09] I told her to hold the press conference when you called.
[3:17] Of course we are following, son.
[3:18] If he doesn't sound down, maybe I've got one guy that's going to sound up in the whole test.
[3:27] You gave him the number.
[3:28] How did he feel about it?
[3:28] One egg, huh?
[3:32] Here it is.
[3:32] Okay.
[3:35] West Coast.
[3:35] How will he be informed then?
[3:37] I have a threat of reaching, and I wait now until 7.30.
[3:42] Fine.
[3:42] Okay, take that paragraph out now.
[3:46] Fine.