Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 336-061
Date: Monday, May 8, 1972 at 6:34 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/336-061

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[3:12:34] It's only convenient here in my very mind, our way, to defend our great interests.
[3:12:36] No sort of soldier is your friend, even now.
[3:12:38] Sixty thousand Americans are your friend.
[3:12:41] We expect you to help your allies.
[3:12:42] You cannot expect us to do other than to continue to help our allies.
[3:12:46] But let us on that already far help our allies only for the purpose of their defense, not for the purpose of launching nations in abstraction.
[3:12:54] Otherwise, the cause of peace, the cause to which we both have so great a stand,