Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 276-009
Date: Friday, September 10, 1971 at 4:17 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/276-009

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[0:00] Two things.
[0:01] One, one statement.
[0:02] There is a conference in Panama this weekend, starting this weekend, of Latin Americans, and we thought it might be a good idea if we exempted Latin America from the 10% cut in foreign aid.
[0:17] I agree with that.
[0:20] I agree with that.
[0:41] The one thing you might keep in mind is he wants to have five minutes with you alone.
[0:46] He wants to hear from you.
[0:52] Yes, but be careful not to say it too extremely because he's going to think you're crazy.
[0:57] The other thing he will want you to say, but that you don't have to do privately.
[1:02] that I would not say is that you go to school with them before you go to school.
[1:08] I mean, the Robert really was decent and sent him a copy of his own speech, which was classified.
[1:15] And the next morning, it was supposed to be somewhat hectic period for the Chinese to take a hospital stand for the Chinese.
[1:26] So they should take a hospital stand because we're
[1:30] in effect doing it two times.
[1:33] We can't say that you're mad again when you compare us to...
[1:38] If you could tell Fukuda that we are serious this time, that we're keeping time on that, maybe well, it picked up this year.
[1:51] I can't believe it.
[1:52] Yeah.
[1:54] How old are you?
[2:01] So, Jackson, I think he's trying to make himself more popular.
[2:13] Talk to McGregor, see what the mood was in Congress.
[2:23] Hunter, do you think so?
[2:24] If Jackson, one of their strongest supporters,
[2:30] I don't know.
[2:34] I don't know.
[2:36] I don't know.
[2:38] I don't know.
[2:39] I don't know.
[2:58] And the question was, would it take place?
[3:02] You know, anyone who knows, knows the direction for that.
[3:09] In Canada, in East Coast, in the Pacific Ocean, in the Pacific Ocean, television says it's done.
[3:18] Why not?
[3:19] That's a hell of a lot better than to say they're getting out by August 3rd, bugging out, I know, and then counting on them not attacking them.
[3:28] But maybe it doesn't make any difference, because on the other hand, it gives us greater flexibility.
[3:36] I think now, myself, that I have to be flexible.
[3:39] I believe, I'm on the way to see what they say, but it's totally stalemate.
[3:45] I still think that this ploy of altering the elements is a secret meeting that we can no longer plan.
[3:54] run by him is a pre-election.
[3:56] To say that we are holding out so that the Communists participate in an election run by him, that no one would say yes.
[4:03] We cannot run.
[4:05] We can no longer say that an election run by Chu is a pre-election, that's true.
[4:10] What we used to make is that we are fighting for a pre-population, while the people of Chu cannot be any longer achieved under him.
[4:18] And what we cannot let them do is to eliminate Chu, so what we've been doing for so long is
[4:24] Yeah, I'll be gone in a minute.
[4:25] Let's see if I can get that one right.
[4:27] Let's see if I can get that one right.
[4:31] and I wouldn't say it.
[4:32] But I doubt if you could handle it.
[4:34] I don't think I should make it.
[4:35] If Lee Ducktoe isn't dead, isn't good, well, I'm making a new offer.
[4:40] Oh, I would make this.
[4:41] I wouldn't.
[4:41] In fact, I'd be damn sure of this one.
[4:44] If the other fellow's dead, I'll just break it open and then...
[4:47] I'd be made enough of a record.
[4:49] I'd make it very sure of it.
[4:50] I'm sorry if you've got anything new to offer.
[4:52] What have you got?
[4:53] We don't have any more.
[4:55] You can say one of the two things, but we can either make the thing that you've told us.
[5:01] That's it.