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Conversation 025-079

TapeTape 25StartTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 1:30 PMEndTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 1:35 PMTape start time03:16:12Tape end time03:23:39ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Scott, HughRecording deviceWhite House Telephone
AudioNARA Description

On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Hugh Scott talked on the telephone from 1:30 pm to 1:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-079 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 25-79

Date: June 20, 1972
Time: 1:30-1:35 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Hugh Scott.

[See Conversation No. 342-23]

     Scott's health
           -President's telephone call
           -Progress

     Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
           -Henry A. Kissinger
                -Hawaii
                -Defense policy
                     -Statements
                           -Nuclear Weapons
                -Massive retaliation
                     -John Foster Dulles
                -The President’s view
                     -Foreign policy
                           -Soviet Union

     Margaret Chase Smith
         -President's call

     Vietnam
          -Thinking of North Vietnamese
          -A bill in Congress
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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I didn't call you while you were at my place because my spouse wanted to get in on it.
But I was delighted to hear that it was getting out this morning.
It's got a lot of headroom.
It's got a lot of headroom.
It's got a lot of headroom.
It's got a lot of headroom.
It's got a lot of headroom.
It's got a lot of headroom.
It's got a lot of headroom.
I got the flow of the blood in the brain here in about a fifth of a second.
Well, I just hope it doesn't scare you.
One year, wait a year, it's not.
It's great.
It's great.
Wow, I hope I'm not... Oh!
Yeah, that would be... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what?
I believe I caught that one.
And, uh, he was, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
and the only thing we had is this loop, the solar tunnel, with the jump, uh, that went off, which just means that all of the discussions we had with Luke, uh, he had no credit with the solar tunnel, or whatever, and both of the discussions we had with Luke, uh, you know, uh, that's a, that's a real illusion, you know, uh, you know, uh, you know, uh, yeah, uh,
I'll just call it a few minutes.
Well, the one thing, too, is that they're not that bad.
Certainly, they have got the patience to do that, though.
As far as they are concerned, they do not want to jeopardize whatever might be going on in the country.
I don't know if you've heard that.
I don't know.
Well, they're almost there.
They're almost there.
They're almost there.
They're almost there.
They're almost there.
They're almost there.
They're almost there.
They're almost there.
They're almost there.
or otherwise, or otherwise,
I'm afraid of it.
I'm afraid of it too.
I'm afraid of it.
I'm afraid of it.
I'm afraid of it.
right at this point
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't get a good time for it.
So after, I didn't get a good time for it.
There you go.
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