Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 275-032
Date: Tuesday, September 7, 1971 at 6:00 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/275-032

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[0:00] I mean, I'm just talking to Conley.
[0:03] Henry, Conley said that he'd talk to you about some sort of general ideas about this.
[0:07] Yeah.
[0:09] His point is that he didn't feel that we, in the present time, would have discovered the way of communicating, you know, my speech.
[0:26] I don't believe we should walk in and try to be nicey-nice and say everybody's a star.
[0:31] I mean, everybody, yeah, and all the rest around the world, you.
[0:37] The situation is really one where it can't be handled by Peterson's group.
[0:40] It's bigger than Peterson's group.
[0:44] It's bigger than Peterson's group, and also what it involves.
[0:52] economic, it involves high political strategy.
[0:56] Because every time they come to me on this, I hope you told Connelly that you were talking about how the goddamn gate called me and told me to call Moran or call Pompidou.
[1:15] Did he get the point of that?
[1:20] What did he say?
[1:21] Okay.