Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 336-055
Date: Monday, May 8, 1972 at 6:14 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/336-055

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[2:38:42] It is you, most of all, who will be watching.
[2:38:44] I know that you want to end this war.
[2:38:45] I know how much you want to regret it.
[2:38:47] I can do no more.
[2:38:47] All that I have said and done in this past three and a half years, I will try to do my end to war right now.
[2:38:51] You want peace.
[2:38:52] I want peace.
[2:38:53] But you also want honor, not defeat.
[2:38:54] You want a gentle peace, not a peace that is merely a praise to the other world.
[2:38:59] At this moment, we must stand together in courage.
[2:39:09] And so often in the past, we Americans did not choose to serve in forced amounts.