Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 277-006
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1971 at 12:18 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/277-006

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[11:58] Second, in his last election, did he have a contested election?
[12:25] which meets U.S. standards.
[12:26] All right, I'm going to go over that, and I'll tell them I wanted 15 minutes of state.
[12:31] Tell those assholes to get going, and I expect it to be 15 minutes.
[12:33] They know who the president is, and I know some of these countries.
[12:37] They didn't have an election last time.
[12:40] The last time, they may have had another democratic president, something altogether different.
[12:46] I want to know how many of the present leaders of the countries that they've got,
[12:51] I want that too.
[12:52] That's something else.
[12:53] The one on aid.
[12:54] That's a better question.
[12:55] It'll come later.
[12:56] But I want on this particular list that they already have, the ones that have become independent.
[13:00] Some of them have given aid or something else.
[13:03] But I want them to say, now look here, how many of these types of present leaders in his last election had a contested election, meaning American standards.
[13:16] All right.
[13:16] I'm telling you, they're off their butts.