Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 336-064
Date: Monday, May 8, 1972 at 7:14 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/336-064

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[3:15:33] Henry, there's just one other point I think I should talk to you about briefly, not just about changing the speech, but you've got an attention to all of them.
[3:15:41] And maybe we'll talk about it in the next one.
[3:15:44] ...in covering how to advance the possible supply of the handoff of the Soviet Union...
[3:17:15] The part that I think that's also critical for... What did you say about what happened in the summit?
[3:17:26] What did you...
[3:17:27] I don't know.
[3:17:28] The leadership, the guidance.
[3:17:31] You want to give it on hand.
[3:17:32] I'll do it today.
[3:17:34] Take it back.
[3:17:35] Take it back.
[3:17:38] Take it back.
[3:17:39] Take it back.
[3:17:44] What I mean is that .
[3:18:13] I don't know what you mean about that.
[3:18:16] It was a gift.
[3:18:17] And as far as we're concerned, it's very exciting to test it for this poem.
[3:18:21] And so there's a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very
[3:18:41] Yeah, sure.
[3:18:42] Thank you.
[3:19:16] Yeah, I don't know what the voice is.
[3:19:22] I don't know what the voice is.
[3:19:29] I don't know what the voice is.
[3:19:31] I don't know what the voice is.
[3:19:34] I don't know what the voice is.
[3:19:39] I don't know what the voice is.
[3:19:42] I don't know what the voice is.
[3:20:15] You're absolutely right.
[3:20:26] The way I look at it, what about the ships in the high seas?
[3:20:45] at the present time, we can't face that situation.
[3:20:48] And I would have to say that whatever is necessary, for my dad to put that on the president is what is necessary to stop the military from flying.
[3:20:55] It's not going to happen.
[3:20:56] It's not going to be necessary.
[3:20:57] You're going to stop the bombing tomorrow night.
[3:20:59] It's not going to happen.
[3:21:00] It's not going to happen.
[3:21:01] It's not going to happen.
[3:21:02] It's not going to happen.
[3:21:03] It's not going to happen.
[3:21:04] It's not going to happen.
[3:21:05] It's not going to happen.
[3:21:15] I agree.
[3:21:15] We haven't got much of an air force .
[3:21:44] Maybe he can't get all the money, but they don't say it's 66, 67.
[3:21:51] It'd add up if the oil was running, but they're not sure how many years.
[3:21:55] But I also suggest something else.
[3:21:57] Do you remember the Wild Bill of William Gantle?
[3:22:01] William Gantle, the director of war, worked in Britain.
[3:22:10] He was a good man.
[3:22:13] He was a good man.
[3:22:16] and they determined what part of Europe the U.S. would not know.
[3:22:25] And I strongly urge that instead of trying to do everything, that we do everything P.O.L.
[3:22:34] In other words, not, I think, I think it's about the standpoint of psychology.
[3:22:38] The railroad lines haven't been done.
[3:22:40] But what I see is the P.O.L.
[3:22:42] surge
[3:22:44] Find out wherever it is, there it is, and go in and get the P.O.L.
[3:22:47] Because if you get the P.O.L., it'll stop running.
[3:22:49] The only argument I would say is that I didn't think that we'd get those power plants.
[3:22:55] I didn't put the density in there.
[3:23:01] That's all.
[3:23:02] That's where we go.
[3:23:03] P.O.L.
[3:23:03] of the power plants.
[3:23:05] And you see, if you concentrate on that,
[3:23:10] P.O.L.
[3:23:10] over the place whenever we must have some intelligence on the P.O.L.
[3:23:14] We've already knocked out 8% of the world on all these.
[3:23:17] We've got about 30% of the world outside of our control.
[3:23:20] You see, that's why I don't think they've got four months of P.O.L.
[3:23:25] left.
[3:23:26] That's true.
[3:23:26] There's Ted Harkin and those who are there.
[3:23:30] There's a number of them.
[3:23:31] There's a number of people who can't do it because the P.O.L.
[3:23:36] is not there.
[3:23:40] So, you're gonna, you then are not gonna be present.
[3:23:54] No, but I'd be glad if you'd come in at the beginning.