Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 331-030
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 1972 at 2:11 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/331-030

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[0:00] They've been doing this before.
[0:21] Yeah, what ought to happen?
[0:23] I think...
[0:27] are they going to condemn the invasion, but not the attack?
[0:46] Yeah, yeah.
[0:47] How do you choose the word invasion?
[0:47] Are you going to condemn the invasion of the South or not?
[0:48] What do you say to that?
[0:49] Well, you're, don't be concerned about freedom.
[0:50] You mean you just didn't want to, I don't want to impress people that we're running away from anything.
[0:55] Yeah.
[0:55] Cool.
[0:57] Yeah, yeah.
[1:05] But I hope that you don't want to, at least the impression that
[1:28] Yeah, I'm trying to be sure.
[1:53] Yeah, now I'll go on 245.
[1:53] Warwick.
[1:55] No, no, no, no, I'm all for it.
[2:11] My view is I wouldn't be afraid at all.
[2:13] You know, I feel about it.
[2:14] But I just wanted you to know I'm not afraid of what you can say.
[2:15] You can take on it.
[2:15] But I just don't want to make any more of this today.
[2:16] Let it be made now and turn on.
[2:17] I mean, we're out there.
[2:20] I mean, the bar's going to take a few minutes.
[2:21] We've got some Catholics coming in.
[2:22] We've got some Catholics coming in.
[2:23] We've got some Catholics coming in.
[2:24] Yeah, sure.
[2:47] Yeah.
[2:49] I don't, and I believe, yeah, I believe, I think the government, yeah, I believe President Trump is done right now.
[3:09] About a year later.
[3:09] Well, they've said this before, but I don't know.
[3:10] They said they're all going to do this.
[3:11] Well, I don't know.
[3:12] I don't know.
[3:12] I don't know.
[3:12] I don't know.
[3:19] Although, maybe it's just as well that it's more advanced.
[3:36] I must say.
[3:36] And then they go out and it gives them a little more.
[3:44] We don't consider them any more worth commenting upon or paying attention to than an editorial in the New York Times or the Washington Post.
[3:47] They really aren't relevant.
[3:48] As a matter of fact, if you could get that point across, it would compel Skelly to get that across.
[4:06] We believe that what they say just really isn't relevant anymore.
[4:10] They've lost touch with the real situation.
[4:12] They failed to see what the real target was here.
[4:14] OK.
[4:14] I think you're right.