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 7:25 pm and 8:04 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 336-068 of the White House Tapes.
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Well, that's all we need.
They're not relevant to their problem.
Okay, fine.
Good evening.
My name is...
Tell him that he is the Lord.
And he called me as all of these people are in place.
Not a lot, but they are.
You understand what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
And they're all in place.
And they want me to call them.
And they're all going to send me right over now.
Five weeks ago on this weekend, the Communist Party was in North Vietnam launching a massive invasion of South Vietnam.
The invasion was made possible by a tag for a total of 100 advanced domestic weapons, a lie down on Minnesota's border, and other communist nations.
South Vietnam needs a more brave group to repel this brutal assault.
The Japanese on both sides have been armed.
Most traction has occurred in over 20,000 civilian conditions, including for children.
As I also pointed out in my report, we have responded to our re-announcement as a military offensive by undertaking wide-ranging retreat centers aimed at ending the war from initiation.
We have decided our desire for a rapid solution to the water problem with all possible approaches.
At that time, it was only the ratio of energy between the water and the tank.
Without a basis just for science, there was resumption of negotiations in Ireland.
They indicated they could use their construction.
Based on all the chances, Dr. Arndt and Mr. Schroeder privately found more of the evidence of the issue in October.
On Tuesday, May 2nd, Mr. Arndt and Mr. Schroeder proposed
April 9th, 7th, and April 8th.
And that notes me.
It's both public and private.
All we heard from them was about nasty gravity, and we played with their good hands this morning.
For example, the May 7th Super Bowl game, I know I brought it up, and I should give you.
Well, about every conceivable matter in the world is, well, the only thing is, by the review, it's here and there.
They review for all they can do, according to their own.
Instead, they seem to be ready to create in their grievance public good hands.
Here's what we're three years on the United States.
We have offered two elections.
We have offered two elections.
We have offered an exchange of prisoners for a ratio of 10 yards of these prisoners for every one of their answers.
The argument is that each of these officers is a prisoner.
They have flatly and narrowly used the negotiation as a warning to the police.
Their answer to every peace offer they've made has been to escalate the law.
For two weeks, the law has been set up to defend the negotiations.
Now it has launched three new amends.
In those two weeks, the risk of an economy disrupting the community of folks is at a greater side than it now is in groups.
An economy that hasn't even now reached the point of any greater threat to the lives of 60,000 American troops, we're still going to be about.
Only two issues left for us in this war.
First, in the face of a massive invasion, we need to stratify and jeopardize the lives of 60,000 Americans, and we need to stop them, and we need to prolong their journey.
This is why we should be able to require the same crime after long.
Second, the basis between the transition to the Communist Union, where we join with our enemy for the struggle against the government of South Vietnam.
This truth is what I have for you.
We will not cross the line of generosity and compassion.
We now have a clear hearted choice among three courses of action to be given to all the war and enforcement, continued attempts at negotiation, or precisely military action.
I know that in America, the state of the world is most powerful.
They believe that the way to end the war is to get out.
But a bad thing about the day.
I would encourage 70 million solidators to vote for Congress, charity, and purity.
It would mean that hundreds would have the privilege to be in Congress' hands, with no barricade for them to have a place.
I would encourage this kind of aggression all over the world.
Aggression of smaller nations, armed by their major elements, to attempt to do the best they can with nations as well.
World peace would be a great job.
The second cross of action is to keep on trying to do what you're selling.
This is the course we've been burdened with in the past.
We should continue to pursue it.
But we have made every reasonable offer, tried every possible path for him to support the promise.
The problem is that it takes two to negotiate.
And now, as throughout the past four years, North Vietnam needs arrogant reviewers to negotiate any kind of an imposition on the United States of a common interest regime of 70 million people in South Vietnam.
We do not want a common interest regime.
that is to keep the weapons of war out of the hands of the international community.
about the war in Vietnam.
In his case, he said he tried to agree to restrain the president of the Vietnam War.
That was our responsibility as a great nation, a nation which is interested in our involvement in peace and non-conflict.
We have the advantage of all the strength, but we're sore about what we've heard from his neighbors, the Jews, the Bushes.
We face a good situation.
I'm sure that's not the case.
I'm sure that's not the case.
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They must be in it.
If they're anxious, they're going to cease firing.
Once they're in the order of release, once they're in an anguish, they're going to cease firing.
Again, we will stop all acts of force throughout the program.
At that time, we will proceed with a complete withdrawal of all acts of force to be acknowledged and forewarned.
Each of those should be out of fire strength, and they are not.
If they're in the United States, these are all gone.
They would have been killed if they were not in the United States now.
and a lot of those who were from the middle of the South were from the middle of the South.
They were going to all the nations to be accepted into the South, both of them.
The last group of people who were from the Middle East, they were being accepted into the South.
There's a book in the Middle East about this.
It comes directly from the Middle East.
The Three Changing Parties are called it, and they're trying to do the economy of the South.
First, you're looking at that.
You're looking for all these other people who are from the middle of the South.
They all come from out there, and they're looking for their own.
We choose instead to have peace.
We deem it your sacrifice to stand in the history of the land, the country, and the people, and the reconciliation of the peoples of the land.
We should do so continually in light of your support and your justice and your discretion.
It is your spirit that gives us the honor to do that.
It is your will that gives us the honor to do that.
To other nations, especially those which are held in the country of God, and the actions of God, and also God, I direct you and ask you, first to open your lives to God.
of our allies, not for the purpose of launching nations against our neighbors, otherwise we would have lost the peace.
The cause of the revolt in our Soviet state will be seriously dejected.
Our two nations have been sitting in front of us, and we are here to make you agree.
We are our nation, our church, and our nation.
Let us not slide back, but our challenge is to be safe.
I asked to decide upon a few of the principles of the contract.
The issue was that I had all these passages.
A lot of them cost me money, and I didn't know what to do with them.
We were on the threshold of a new relationship.
We considered all the differences around the premise of what caused the illness.
We were prepared to continue to build the relationship with her.
I also wanted to show her some of the benefits of it.
After the agreement, I asked her to sign a contract to work with me on the state of her family for a long time.