Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 278-055
Date: Thursday, September 16, 1971 at 11:15 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-055

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[0:08] On this Mack truck thing, are you sure we are not at fault?
[0:12] Remember, I've been pressing on that thing because it's a hell of a hot political issue.
[0:26] But when it comes, could I just respectfully suggest, do it fast and get a hell of a lot of enlisting on it because we haven't got any adequate thing that might be called forward on long-term care.
[0:38] It's a very important and handsome matter on this field.
[0:45] I want that personally to be, I mean, I don't want St. Peter's to jump on it, but I want it personally to be pulled over.
[0:51] so that he gets to me at the earliest possible time of the PR plan when it's okay.
[0:58] So it's been a problem.
[0:59] If I'm asked incidentally about seeing Gromyko, should it be said or not?
[1:06] Well, I won't give the date.
[1:07] I don't know the date.
[1:09] But nevertheless, if that's a, sorry, if that was a question, the date, yeah.
[1:19] The Red China...
[1:21] the State Department sent out the support council, the county's security council.
[1:28] That, of course, is what was inevitable.
[1:30] But that position is one thing.
[1:38] In other words, we just say, that is our position, period.
[1:40] I'll go through Gantt Park, and I'll come back and say what I want to say.
[1:50] Do you think I need, you know, do you think State's got to say hello to them?
[1:52] I'll just say, I'm going to keep it very, very brief.
[1:56] We support one, we oppose the other, and we're doing everything we can in an effective way.
[1:59] This is one effective way to do it.
[2:00] That says the United States should have been cut off.
[2:02] They would choose government, the couple, the situation, and the assessment that we see won't be discussed.
[2:16] I don't know whether to comment.
[2:18] No?
[2:24] Okay.