Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 336-063
Date: Monday, May 8, 1972 at 6:34 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/336-063

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[3:13:34] I ask you for the same strong support you have always given your president and your colleagues.
[3:13:46] We assume, most of all, that the world will be watching.
[3:13:57] I know how much you want to bring our men home.
[3:13:59] I think you know from all that I have said in the past three and a half years how much I, too, want to end the war and bring our men home.
[3:14:10] You want peace.
[3:14:11] I want peace.
[3:14:13] But you also want honor.
[3:14:14] I agree.
[3:14:15] You want a genuine peace, not a peace that is just a trade with the war.
[3:14:20] At this moment, we must stand together for the purpose of this honor.
[3:14:23] As so often in the past, we Americans do not choose our people.
[3:14:27] It has been forced upon us by an enemy that has shown utter contempt for every order we have made for peace.
[3:14:31] That is why tonight I ask for your support of this decision, a decision which has only one purpose, not to expand the war, not to escalate the war, but to end this war and to win the kind of peace that will last.
[3:14:44] With God's help, with your support, we will achieve that goal.