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Conversation 332-025

TapeTape 332StartTuesday, April 25, 1972 at 10:05 AMEndTuesday, April 25, 1972 at 10:40 AMTape start time02:54:16Tape end time02:56:34ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AudioNARA Description

On April 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 10:40 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 332-025 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 332-25

Date: April 25, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:05 am and 10:40 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President dictated notes for a speech draft.

     Vietnam
          -North Vietnamese invasion
               -Failure to win over South Vietnamese people
                      -Creighton W. Abrams's views
               -Gamble
                      -Military victory
               -US response
                      -Test
          -Frustrations of war
          -North Vietnamese invasion
               -US response
                      -Necessity

                      -Alternatives
                 -South Vietnam defense
                      -Evacuation of US forces
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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A clear, clear case.
This has been a clear case of brutal, unproven, naked aggression.
And on the last page of the tape, the private tape that you gave, where the sentence starts out as blackly rejected, et cetera, take back to the
take that paragraph and the one that I just dictated to you and put them on a sheet of paper, take it away and move forward.
The only difference on that page that I just dictated to you is we found, that's why we talked to you, but we found that I'm okay with it.
I think it's important that you get, uh, well, I'll tell you, I think I've had to talk to you about this, you know, with all the, uh, you, you with somebody who you, uh, no, no, I have no hurry, I'm working on something else anyway.
Uh, whenever you agree.
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