Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 340-012
Date: Tuesday, June 6, 1972 at 9:21 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/340-012

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[1:06:57] I think the tactics of our left-wing friends on Southeast Asia are becoming rather clear in the last few days.
[1:07:10] They are empathizing with our culture, thinking about our energy, and succeeding through it.
[1:07:22] I think they are in a position at the highest level
[1:07:31] about American companies and self-giving and voting through articles by left-wingers, left-wing reporters who were sent to cover the political and economic situation there.
[1:07:36] This has had one story on self-giving on both the session and voting.
[1:08:01] And there's a story that comes to mind today by Craig Whitman, on Cambodia's political problems.
[1:08:05] Very good.
[1:08:06] We're almost on the same line.
[1:08:08] There's no accident that after Lewis wrote those shocking comment line pieces from Hanoi,
[1:08:31] for the Times, Seelig, S-E-L-I-G, Harrison.
[1:08:33] Now it's on the ceiling in Hanoi, writing about how nice the little 12-year-old boys and girls are who live in school in Hanoi.
[1:08:39] This propaganda is extremely subtle.
[1:09:00] and it may be even too subtle for the average person to understand.
[1:09:02] They made no mistake about it.
[1:09:03] This would be the outline of now until the election.
[1:09:05] And it would be an effective action to combat the trade of some of the countries in the United States of America.
[1:09:08] It was a positive.
[1:09:25] Also, we must continue to try to discredit people like Harrison and Tony Lewis
[1:09:53] who were out watching would never be let in, you know, unless they had a prior commitment to right the Communist Party line all over there.
[1:10:02] Colson will do a great job on this one.
[1:10:07] Colson is a crack at the lowest of the times.
[1:10:11] I know it.
[1:10:14] He's heard some of our, uh,
[1:10:24] House liberals.
[1:10:26] Similar analysis with Harrison.
[1:10:33] Harrison's background.
[1:10:34] Might be well out of it.
[1:10:39] I'm going to copy some of the call from Colson.
[1:19:46] Hi, how are you?
[1:19:46] Okay.
[1:19:46] Thank you.
[1:19:47] Did you get off over the weekend?
[1:19:55] Yeah.
[1:19:55] Where'd you go?
[1:19:56] Well, I stayed here.
[1:19:56] Stayed here?
[1:19:58] Yeah.
[1:19:58] It was nice.
[1:19:59] It was very nice.
[1:20:00] It was beautiful.
[1:20:01] Yeah, we had a...
[1:20:03] I think we were in Florida.
[1:20:04] It was a perfect month there, you know.
[1:20:08] It was a perfect month.
[1:20:16] Oh, really?
[1:20:16] It's one of those things.
[1:20:19] They haven't had the rain all winter, so it caught up.
[1:20:24] And O's still there?
[1:20:24] Well, I don't believe that, yeah.
[1:20:26] He's still got, I've got to say, he's been sitting there two and a half weeks.
[1:20:31] I left him down there with the dog and the fish.
[1:20:38] He works hard.
[1:20:40] Yeah.
[1:20:42] Oh, that's nice.
[1:20:43] Right.
[1:20:43] Okay.
[1:20:44] Well, welcome back.
[1:20:45] Thanks.
[1:20:45] Nice to see you.
[1:20:46] Thank you.