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Conversation 336-062

TapeTape 336StartMonday, May 8, 1972 at 6:34 PMEndMonday, May 8, 1972 at 7:14 PMTape start time03:12:59Tape end time03:13:34ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
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On May 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 6:34 pm and 7:14 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 336-062 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 336-62

Date: May 8, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:34 and 7:14 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed his “Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia”.

[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 583-587]

                                        (rev. Nov-01)
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Otherwise, the cause of peace, the cause to which we both have so great a stand,
to be seriously objectified.
Our two nations have made significant progress in our negotiations in recent months.
We are here made to agree on what we are on as a nation, trade and coastal ambitions.
Let us not slide back through the dark and shadows of the previous age.
We do not ask you to sacrifice your principles or your friends, but neither should you permit analyzing pathogens that lot of the prospects weaved together as so patiently prepared.
We are on the threshold of a new relationship
I ask you for the same strong support you have always given your president and your colleagues.
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