Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 336-049
Date: Monday, May 8, 1972 at 6:09 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/336-049

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[2:29:55] There's one thing on my rating page that I have written out.
[2:29:59] You may not have written it out here, but it was right for us to write that one out.
[2:30:09] I'm sure I will deliver it.
[2:30:10] No, not until after it's over.
[2:30:12] I didn't have the ability to do that.
[2:30:30] That was our responsibility as a break-taking nation, to make sure that America evolved in these five continents.
[2:30:33] However, when a nation abandoned all its friends, drove its forearms into battle with their afraid savior, and refused to go shoot, we had to make a new mission.
[2:30:46] And these were the chances that the 60,000 American men and women that they would have decided to do the greatest job in this country could possibly achieve.
[2:30:57] I was there both to prove and analyze the denial of the weapons supplied by the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
[2:31:04] Localization was public and not.
[2:31:06] I wanted to follow the majors to be independent.
[2:31:08] I wanted to follow the majors, particularly the men and women of the U.S. Secretary of Defense.