Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 278-033
Date: Monday, September 13, 1971 at 8:50 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Sanchez, Manolo
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-033

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[0:00] Now is to get your announcement, the announcement of your meeting.
[0:09] I would say, I would strongly urge the 23rd to get a much preferred 23rd instead of an annual.
[0:18] Much preferred 23rd.
[0:19] I know it's all right.
[0:21] It's all right.
[0:23] You understand?
[0:27] They want to be able to have an answer.
[0:30] They must know that I went there.
[0:34] I've talked to them.
[0:37] I've stopped just short of it, but they're very good.
[0:42] I've spoken to them every week.
[0:46] It's a good one.
[0:51] What we have to do is just
[1:16] If you're willing to see it through, Mr.
[1:19] Senator.
[1:20] And that will get us plus three million car channels.
[1:26] I strongly lean to that because I don't think the negotiations end.
[1:30] It will give us two pints, too, Mr. President.
[1:33] It will give us two pints.
[1:35] I will do it in two pints.
[1:36] At the end of October or early November, I will just announce it.
[1:41] We started out retiring ourselves to that line.
[2:09] What they want me to do to the players in the stadium is to leave the white-out hotel and speak to the players in Vietnam that high, that high, so you've got to make that move.
[2:20] You've got to make that move.
[2:24] You've got to make that move.
[2:25] You've got to make that move.
[2:27] You've got to make that move.
[2:30] You've got to make that move.
[2:33] You've got to make that move.
[2:36] They won't dare to do any of the same work out here today.
[2:39] Since we're ordered to, how many of you, at the end of the day, have elected leaders, elected presidents, which is an acronym.
[2:50] How many lines in Alabama?
[2:53] How many in Colorado at the end of the day?
[2:56] That's just a headline.
[2:58] I mean, it's true.
[3:00] It's seven critical times.
[3:02] It's all...
[3:04] Oh, hey.
[3:20] Vietnam is in all that state at the present time.
[3:22] You see what that means.
[3:24] You see now, from your trip to China, you can see where you're going to be going.
[3:31] The Russian trip, you can see where you're going to be going.
[3:34] I said when I got back, Vietnam, your trip, you can see where you're going to be going.
[3:39] Through October, we'll be in pretty good shape.
[3:42] Happy October.
[3:44] And they will make another announcement, whatever.
[3:49] And then they'll make a money announcement, in general.
[3:55] And then they'll make another announcement, in general.
[4:03] And then they'll make another announcement, in general.
[4:12] I'll put it over there.
[4:14] It doesn't collapse on its own.
[4:19] It can't collapse.
[4:21] It must not collapse.
[4:23] I have to do this question, and I will not do it on call.
[4:27] I'll just do it in the office.
[4:29] I'll just do it in the office and lay it out there cold and hard.
[4:34] I'll let you have the best conversation with the senator.
[4:38] But there's no point going to Moscow if we aren't going to do that.
[5:03] No, I'm not possessing the aircraft.
[5:05] I only have the attachment, and that's it.
[5:10] But you could run, but still be civilized.
[5:14] I don't think that's going to work.
[5:16] I don't think anybody's going to believe anything about elections right now.
[5:19] I'd like to, I'd like to get a lot of our roots on the remote course and all that.
[5:25] And if you can prepare and get a lot of restaurants and so forth, I'd like to be looking at it.
[5:32] And I'll be hardlining this and I'll always stick my chin out there.
[5:35] There's a lot going on here in Mansfield.
[5:40] I've got to bring him in, too.
[5:43] Tomorrow, maybe after Easter, we've got less than 11.
[5:46] And that's when we're at our best.
[5:48] We're going to help that.
[5:50] We're going to stick it to our mind.
[5:51] Don't give them a goddamn inch.
[5:53] We can't.
[5:54] We're not going to run out of there.
[5:55] We're not going to overkill two.
[5:56] We're going to give two a chance.
[5:58] It's after we make this amount.
[6:00] But if any of you collapse, you collapse.
[6:04] We're going to collapse.
[6:05] We're going to collapse.
[6:07] We're going to collapse.
[6:07] We're going to collapse.
[6:09] We're going to collapse.
[6:11] If they offer us to put them back early about...
[6:13] Spread the record, really, and thank them for everything we've done.
[6:22] Here, I didn't announce it, but if you don't just go defensively, no draftees, no ground crew, nothing but...
[6:41] like a Russian maid.
[6:43] You may go to China, but if you go to China, you have a gunning mistake.
[6:52] You will stand to be carried.
[6:54] Shut up.
[6:54] Today, obviously, I get instructions how to behave.
[6:56] The first time I was there, he was very polite and very cool.
[7:00] This time, he brought out the black coat of arms.
[7:02] He sent messages, no, no, no.
[7:05] We'll be between the Russians and Chinese.
[7:10] What was your reaction to the Japanese?
[7:17] The Chinese thing.
[7:18] You noticed how I... You have the few...
[7:20] I've backed off of...
[7:22] I've backed off of the whole...
[7:24] I... You have...
[7:25] I was astonished, but I kept saying it a lot.
[7:27] You've got to be sorry, but...
[7:28] I must say, honestly, I thought the stage performance was unbelievably impressive.
[7:33] I thought it was...
[7:35] I thought it was...
[7:38] I thought it was...
[7:38] I thought it was...
[7:51] I thought it was strips.
[8:01] Must be harder.
[10:25] I'm totally unthinkable that the tempo and speed of...
[10:48] I don't think they're going to win.
[10:54] What the hell?
[10:57] According to what the leads are, we've got to throw out there at a certain time.
[11:15] I'm not sure it's all lined up.
[11:21] That's what I'm having.
[11:29] I don't know what that is.
[11:33] I don't know what's going on.
[11:40] They slaughtered seven dynasties.
[11:48] They slaughtered seven dynasties.
[11:53] They slaughtered seven dynasties.
[11:56] Did that work?
[12:00] Did that work?
[12:02] They didn't have to stick to anything they had done.
[12:06] They agreed.
[12:08] They wanted to be done with.
[12:11] They showed it over and over.
[12:13] How do you rely on others?
[12:14] And she was in the election.
[12:20] She was better than when I was in the election.
[12:25] Great.
[12:26] We were responsible.
[12:29] I was still waiting on the president to do a meeting.
[12:32] I was like, why the hell did we go out there?
[12:34] We're not going to sell out.
[12:39] But, uh, we're going to do it.
[12:46] We're going to do it.
[12:46] We're going to do it.
[12:47] We're going to do it.
[12:49] We're going to do it.
[12:49] We're going to do it.
[12:50] We're going to do it.
[12:51] We're going to do it.
[12:54] If they may not be with us, I think once they hang up, they have no more to announce.
[12:59] I think that we need to protect them from all of that.
[13:04] We need to follow our foreign policy lead and our military protection.
[13:09] I think that we need to protect them from all of that.
[13:16] We need to protect them from all of that.
[13:20] We need to protect them from all of that.
[13:24] They do have people in their party, one of their guys.
[13:37] They were building slowly a military base.
[13:47] What we did in about a year or two, three, let's do it.
[13:50] We had to draft the opportunity.
[13:51] We wouldn't have to draft the second team.
[13:56] We're not going to be on this course forever.
[14:00] We're going to be on our way.
[14:03] We ought to go where our career drives us more.
[14:06] And that's what we have to do.
[14:08] I think that's what we have to do.
[14:11] At least that's what we have to do.
[14:12] That's what we have to do.
[14:16] Well, I think Rock was saying that he was pushed.
[14:21] Before that, Mr. President, you decided to do a great job.
[14:25] You never pushed ahead.
[14:26] If anybody was, it was me.
[14:30] Well, I'd fight you for $35,000 and $50,000 and $150,000.
[14:32] Oh, the $150,000 was more than any of them you distracted us.
[14:36] You're not going to continue.
[14:40] I read what the detective in Cambodia distracted you.
[14:41] We put him on the board, and they had a discussion.
[14:46] about the war and so forth.
[14:51] We've talked about it.
[14:52] He just told me today, he said, I'm worried about the troops.
[14:57] Nobody wants to be the last guy to die in the war.
[15:00] The only reason is they can't make it.
[15:08] We're all doing it again.
[15:37] Right.
[15:37] I'll get that message out tomorrow.
[15:41] I'll go out.