Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 291-001
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1971 at 8:37 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/291-001

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[0:00] And let me just read them all.
[0:05] That's a good thing.
[0:06] And I can get a good view of the whole thing.
[0:08] In addition, I'm giving him, I'm giving Joe from the church meeting the following.
[0:14] I'm having a book with him that breaks down our recommendation for the numbers of the church that we want to take in by category.
[0:23] And I'll have tabs which show how many we had in Yugoslavia, how many we had in Romania,
[0:30] what the list was that was first submitted to the D.C. to submit a new list.
[0:33] But then, with your permission, I'd like to tell him that even that list would not go through.
[0:37] It's still too awkward.
[0:39] Oh, shit, that's too much.
[0:40] I'm not...
[0:41] I'm never agreeing to go through it.
[0:44] It's, uh...
[0:44] I understand.
[0:45] The only thing I want is to get a telegram.
[0:47] Oh, I don't know how it works.
[0:52] It's not...
[0:53] I've had it before.
[0:54] I go home and cut down the secret services.
[0:57] The biggest slice is the press.
[1:00] Well, cut them down.
[1:01] We don't have to do that.
[1:03] It comes with the ground station and with the... Cut the writing press down to a minimum.
[1:10] But I will tell him that we will cut the press whichever way he wants to so he can get it down to as little as he wants.
[1:19] And all of this I'll add on to it.
[1:30] If they don't scrub it down.
[1:32] Correct.
[2:00] I'll strip those measures down for you.
[2:03] For our interest, we've got to have one.
[2:04] The ground station, the idea of finding the ground station, and it was good, and it was acceptable, and it happened.
[2:11] We've got to get it out there to you, and that's our investment in our interest.
[2:18] But as far as writing the press, it doesn't make a goddamn big difference.
[2:22] Cut it down.
[2:23] I don't want to hear it.
[2:24] I frankly would not do anything that's that acceptable.
[2:30] I don't have a right to press.
[2:32] I don't have a right to press.
[2:36] I don't know why I'd like to.
[2:41] One or two is enough.
[2:43] It's great to have a reason to press on people out there.
[2:54] I won't be here tomorrow.
[2:55] I'm going to be reading the press on a daily basis.
[2:58] And the group was mis-employed in Chicago tomorrow.
[3:01] And I met a meeting, I told her that Pussy was dead.
[3:06] A lot of years, there was a crisis, and that's something which, I don't know if it was well or not.
[3:14] So then after, you won't talk about Pussy?
[3:17] You won't talk about us?
[3:19] I can't talk about Pussy.
[3:20] I'm going to use the occasion to push through.
[3:24] It's a historic moment, to tell you the truth.
[3:29] and say that the need is to give the country... And the need also, the need also to have a strong national empire without the opposition.
[3:43] There's a subtle way to go about it.
[3:47] Right.
[3:48] I've got that person who's going to mess with us time and time again.
[3:56] I actually don't see how that would fit so well.
[4:00] Two of them.
[4:00] He doesn't have customers.
[4:02] He doesn't have customers.
[4:07] Businessmen don't have customers.
[4:15] Businessmen don't have customers.
[4:17] Actually, I know a boy in Russia.
[4:19] Yeah, he was killed.
[4:20] He was absolutely killed.
[4:22] He was killed.
[4:23] He was killed.
[4:23] He was killed.
[4:24] He was killed.
[4:25] He was killed.
[4:30] I think I think
[4:58] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[4:59] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[4:59] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:00] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:01] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:02] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:03] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:04] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:04] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:05] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:06] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:06] We stuck it to them on Chinese.
[5:29] Okay, thank you.
[5:30] You're welcome, Mr. Perry.