Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 354-017
Date: Friday, October 6, 1972 at 12:35 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/354-017

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[0:00] Well, I mean, the blacks are decent people.
[0:20] They're good people.
[0:20] They really are.
[0:21] They're not killers.
[0:21] We had a good meeting also.
[0:49] I bought my government's practice today.
[1:13] The line about communist China is about security.
[1:36] It's got to go right.
[1:36] It's a hero in me.
[1:37] Sure.
[1:37] It would scare the world.
[1:37] Well, it does a lot of things.
[1:38] First, it irritates the Russians.
[1:39] They don't want communist China dominating India.
[1:40] Second, it frightens the Japanese and Indonesians.
[1:41] It frightens 300 million people to death in India.
[1:43] Even the guy who matched her with Indians.
[2:09] Well, what's the difference?
[2:09] They fight for the Chinese.
[2:10] They're hedging.
[2:10] That might change.
[2:11] Yes, he's just big.
[2:11] And she's supposed to rely on the Chinese.
[2:12] That's about it.
[2:12] It's done.
[2:13] I just wanted to have a little more meat in it.
[2:49] We've got a big fish waiting in line.
[3:11] It has to be here.
[3:11] It's actually here.
[3:12] That's what's going on.
[3:12] Everybody's going to fire.
[3:13] The television says they're going all out, you know, super, you know, demonstrations, and they're messing, and they're speaking out, and all this sort of stuff.
[3:16] It's supposed to be really conservative.
[3:19] I haven't been treated that way in years.
[3:42] The fact of it being peristaltic doesn't put something in the neighborhood.
[3:43] But it doesn't matter until they have a lady that I love.
[3:45] That's going to hurt.
[3:45] If we hit them with a car,
[3:47] I don't know.
[4:05] I just saw it right there.
[4:06] Chuck's got a good point.
[4:06] He's got all the people.
[4:07] He might find out, I think.
[4:07] He's driving.
[4:08] He can't do it.
[4:08] He's got a chance, but it's not.
[4:09] Yeah, it's a problem.
[4:09] I must have picked it up.
[4:30] You need to work with them more than you can with all of them.
[4:59] Thank you.