Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 333-011
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 1972 at 1:10 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/333-011

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[0:00] I wonder if we can now see the day when no more Americans will be involved there at all.
[0:26] Basically, there will be civilians, there will be advisors.
[0:27] You see what I'm getting at?
[0:27] I wonder if we'll be involved.
[0:28] Or should we just leave it and just breathe on it and see what happens?
[0:30] We're Americans.
[0:54] All right.
[0:54] Okay.
[0:54] Okay, you're gonna have a great night.
[0:55] I just wanted to show you that you're okay.
[0:56] Yeah.
[0:56] Well, the drive.
[0:56] They might have done it.
[0:57] I guess that we just aren't gonna be scared.
[0:58] That's the point.
[0:58] All right, now I stopped the vehicle.
[0:59] Great battle for a world war.
[1:01] We've got a great loss of hundreds of thousands of men and so forth, great commanders, presidents, and so on.
[1:20] We're going to get scared because of them.
[1:21] That's what we've got to get rid of.
[1:21] That's what we've got to get rid of.
[1:26] You think it's about weakness.
[1:32] You don't want to make a great question and you think it's better.
[1:41] I don't know.