Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 259-001
Date: Monday, June 28, 1971 at 1:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/259-001

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[0:53] I had a project which I'd like for you to turn over to Al.
[0:57] It's in his province.
[1:00] Let me tell you what I think it is.
[1:04] I think you have great possibilities.
[1:08] I want a total reexamination in the government of the top secret Clemson system.
[1:16] Who has now, and my point is I'm going to arbitrarily order a revocation and I'll re-serve the State Department for the revocation of all 10%, something like that.
[1:27] That's my point.
[1:31] Arbitrarily.
[1:32] I'll say it.
[1:33] I'll say it.
[1:34] The second thing, I want to know who has furnishes outside of the building.
[1:37] For example, does Wiesner have a furnace?
[1:41] I'll withdraw that.
[1:42] Do you understand?
[1:44] Yeah.
[1:45] Now, now, now, now, this is something that I want.
[1:48] I don't think you'll listen to Elvis on this.
[1:54] My point is, can we get, can we get a hold of, uh, we haven't, we haven't gone forward yet on the log or something.
[2:04] This, of course, would be perfect to log.
[2:09] I agreed to it.
[2:09] I agreed to it a month ago.
[2:11] On this, I want this to be put forward post-paste, because I would like to issue an order immediately, and I'm going to just put it out without any discussion.
[2:24] I'm not going to have an NSC meeting.
[2:27] I'm not going to ask the State Department or the Director to say, I hereby order that thing.
[2:33] Understand?
[2:35] And look at, yeah, yeah.
[2:38] And how many people, I don't know how many in the state have a proxy from there.
[2:40] How many defense have a proxy from there?
[2:44] How many of them?
[2:45] And I said, I want people, I want to deduce to this number, to this number.
[2:49] You know what I mean?
[2:50] And you can pick the number, but I, I, I, I, I'm not sure it was ordered to be deduced.
[2:58] I'd cut them off there, but look on the inside.
[3:02] That way we can then, instead of having an error of paper leaks, they say, well, there are 500 that have been cleared.
[3:10] We can tell right now there's only 100 people.
[3:15] Am I right?
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