Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 253-016
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1971 at 3:12 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/253-016

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[0:04] Did you, did Andrews work on the West Point?
[0:07] Is he there?
[0:10] Yeah.
[0:11] I did some work on it last night.
[0:15] I had sort of a new idea.
[0:18] And I was wondering, let's see,
[0:28] I'm over in about 20 minutes.
[0:29] You come in so that you can sort of get the feel of how I think about it.
[0:31] And here's, let me tell you my concern.
[0:31] My concern as a person, not with regard to what is written in the book, but my concern is that what is written in terms of everything else is almost totally
[0:57] and the next in command policy in Vietnam, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
[1:01] Now, I'm not gonna run away from it.
[1:04] I will, of course, pay attention to what I think.
[1:09] I think that Pete should be rather different to that presented at this time.
[1:15] Again, this has begun to be, in fact, my whole idea, and Pete Peterson, who I love, he had a problem with this,
[1:26] I just, you know, coming in, his whole theory about it is, you know, they're on the line, you know, they're not going to do anything, you know, it's just, you know, they're not going to do anything, you know, it's just, you know, they're not going to do anything, you know, it's just, you know, they're not going to do anything.
[1:56] All right, that'll do it.
[1:56] EOB.