Conversation 374-003

TapeTape 374StartWednesday, October 25, 1972 at 4:40 PMEndWednesday, October 25, 1972 at 5:40 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Colson, Charles W.;  Sanchez, Manolo;  White House operator;  [Unknown person(s)];  Kissinger, Henry A.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building

On October 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, unknown person(s), and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:40 pm to 5:40 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 374-003 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 374-3

Date: October 25, 1972
Time: 4:40 pm - 5:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

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        1972 campaign
            -California
                -The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                -Polls
                     -Standing with Catholics
                         -State compared to national
                         -Mexicans
                     -Standing with students
                     -Democrats
                         -George S. McGovern
                     -Labor
                         -Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Paul Hall
                         -San Francisco
                              -Democratic control
                              -Paul Hall

                                     (rev. Feb-24)

                        -Michael P. Balzano, Jr., Donald F. Rodgers
           -Michigan, Detroit News poll
           -George C. Wallace's supporters
               -California
                    -Use of manpower
                    -Press releases
                    -John G. Schmitz
                    -Charles W. Colson’s conversation with Paul Hall
                    -Busing
                        -Compared to Massachusetts
                    -Busing
           -California
               -Telephone polls
                    -Shift in polls
                        -Meaning

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       Watergate
          -George S. McGovern
               -Television [TV] appearance, October 25, 1972
                   -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -Effect on 1972 election
               -Polls
                   -Albert E. Sindlinger’ s view
                        -Possible voting margins
                        -Press release
                            -Undecided
          -Reaction to news stories
               -Washington Post
               -White House response
               -Ronald L. Ziegler
               -Haldeman-Dwight L. Chapin memorandum
                   -Haldeman’s view
                   -George E. Christian rumor
               -John A. Scali
                   -San Francisco
                   -Vietnam
                   -The President’s view
               -Kenneth W. Clawson’s view

       Press relations

                                 (rev. Feb-24)

      -Nature of relationship
           -Katherine L. Graham
      -Henry A. Kissinger, White House staff
           -The President’s threat
      -William P. Rogers
           -Dedication of Washington Post building
      -The New York Times and Washington Post
           -White House strategy
                -Richard Scaife, W. Clement Stone, John A. Mulcahy
           -Influence
                -Charles Percy, John Sherman Cooper, Marlow W. Cook, Robert T.
Stafford
                     -Graham
                     -Georgetown
                -Influence of Washington Post
                -Daniel L. Schorr, Carl Stern
                     -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
                     -Chapin story news coverage
                         -The President's appearance before prisoners of war [POWs]
families group
                -Administration strategy
                     -John B. Connally's advice
                -Public opinion
      -Watergate
           -Ziegler's response
                -Robert J. Dole, Clark MacGregor
           -Possible libel suit
                -Haldeman, Chapin
                     -Colson
                         -Possible testimony
                              -Neal B. Freeman
                              -Benjamin C. Bradlee
   Policy toward the Press
      -The President’s view
           -Compared to the President’s handling of North Vietnam,
            Cambodia, Laos
                -May 8, 1972 decision
                -Kissinger
                -John D. Ehrlichman
                -Washington Post
                     -Clawson’s conversation with Kissinger
                     -Bradlee
                     -Philip L. Geyelin

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                            -Influence
                        -Television stations owned by Washington Post
                            -WTOP
                                 -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                            -Miami
                            -Federal Communications Commission [FCC] action on license
renewal
                                -The President’s view
          Watergate
             -Polls
                  -Albert E. Sindlinger

          Use of radio and TV
              -Administration strategy
                   -Haldeman
                   -1968 campaign
              -Comparison

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:40 pm.

Colson talked with the White House operator at an unknown time after 4:40 pm.

[Conversation No. 374-3B]

[See Conversation No. 32-43A]

[End of conversation]

          Washington Post, New York Times

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

Colson talked with an unknown woman at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 374-3C]

[See conversation No. 32-43B]

[End of conversation]

          Administration strategy and the press
             -Clawson
             -Scali's future plans in broadcast journalism

                                      (rev. Feb-24)

                -The President’s view
                    -Scali’s previous work in journalism
                         -State Department
                    -Possible effect on network news
                         -Dan Rather
                -Possible return to California

        McGovern's forthcoming speech
           -Views of Haldeman, Connally
           -Possible response

        Vietnam
            -Colson's conversation with Jay Lovestone
                -Connally’s TV appearance, October 20, 1972
                -War as issue
                     -Importance of attacking McGovern’s stance

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

                     -Lovestone’s and George Meany's forthcoming briefing by Haig
                         -Coalition government issue
                             -Prisoners of war [POWs]

        Watergate and campaign practices
           -Polls
                -Sindlinger’s view
                -Effect on projected voting numbers
                -The President's position
                -Ziegler and MacGregor’s response on Watergate
                    -Washington Post

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        1972 campaign's last two weeks
            -The President's possible margin
                -Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower's margin

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                -The President’s assessment
            -1960
            -Harris poll on approval of the President
                -Stable percentage

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        1972 campaign
            -McGovern’s vacillation on issues
            -Corruption charges
                -Washington Post
                -McGovern's description of the President's administration
                -Compared with other campaign issues
                     -1952 comparison
                     -The Louis P. Harris poll
                          -The economy, relations with the People's
                           Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
                -Vietnam War
                     -Current status of negotiations
                         -Harris poll numbers
                              -“Hawks”
                         -Uncertainty
                              -Settlement
                                   -Timing
                                        -1972 election
                              -Public perceptions
                                   -Progress
                         -Thieu
                     -McGovern’s stance
                         -Response by the President’s surrogates
                              -Amnesty, POWs, surrender
                              -Harris
                              -Kissinger briefing
                              -Rogers

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:40 and
5:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 374-3A]

        The President’s request for attendance

                                       (rev. Feb-24)

[End of telephone conversation]

        1972 campaign
            -Vietnam War and possible peace settlement
                -Harris’s analysis
                    -Kissinger
                -McGovern’s stance
                    -Possible attack by Rogers
                         -Haig’s previous conversation with Colson
                    -Possible attack by Melvin R. Laird
                         -Laird’s schedule
                              -Europe
                -Sindlinger’s view

Kissinger entered at 5:16 pm.

             -Public perception of issue according to Harris, Sindlinger
                 -Timing of peace settlement compared with 1972 election
                 -Appearance of progress
                 -Haig’s briefing of Meany
                      -Meany’s attacks on McGovern
                 -Kissinger’s conversation with Howard K. Smith
                 -McGovern
                 -May 8, 1972, bombing and mining of Haiphong Harbor
                 -Nature of cease-fire agreement
                      -Coalition government
                 -Ziegler
                      -Achievement of goals
                          -Settlement
                               -Timing
                                    -1972 election
                      -Perception of agreement
                 -Kissinger’s conversation with Max Frankel
                 -McGovern
                      -Kissinger’s briefing
                      -Administration strategy
                          -Political considerations
                          -Timing of briefing
                               -Television network coverage
                               -Newspaper coverage

Colson left at 5:23 pm.

                                       (rev. Feb-24)

        Vietnam peace settlement negotiations
            -Cease-fire efforts
                -Possible response from North Vietnamese
                     -North Vietnamese statements
                          -Nguyen Van Thieu

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        Vietnam peace settlement negotiations
                -Thieu’s actions
                    -Timing of US response
                         -Compared to 1972 election

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.

                    -Thieu’s future as US ally
                -Dan Rather’s recent conversation with Kissinger
                    -Timing compared to 1972 election
                -McGovern
                    -Administration strategy
                -Kissinger’s meeting with Sir James Plimsoll
                    -Briefing for William McMahon
                -Incentives
                    -Halt to US bombing
                -Public perception of cease-fire agreement
                    -Conservatives

                                        (rev. Feb-24)

                           -William F. Buckley, Jr.
                  -Thieu
                      -Frequency of meetings with Ellsworth F. Bunker
                      -Political skills compared with military skills
                  -US political implication
                      -Smith’s view
                      -Kissinger’s view
                  -Coalition government
                  -Time article
                  -South Vietnamese actions
                      -Dispatches to Britain, Australia
                           -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                           -George R.S. Baring (The Earl of Cromer)
                                -Haig
                  -Negotiations
                      -1968
                           -Compared to 1972
                           -Hubert H. Humphrey
                      -Administration strategy
                           -Timing
                                -January 1, 1973, November 20, 1972
                           -Le Duc Tho possible meeting with Kissinger in Paris
                                -Settlement text
                                     -Ellsworth F. Bunker

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.

                      -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
                      -Gen. William C. Westmoreland
                          -Haig
                          -North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
                              -Economic assistance

Kissinger left at 5:40 pm.

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Well, of course, in two weeks, I don't think they could make water use of it.
Of course, they're going to, he's hitting up tonight, and he's going to hit it again.
Of course, all three of them are going to go on and on about water use.
I don't mind it.
I just don't think that changes.
I think it would make a number of people better off, but I don't think it's going to change our people.
The cinema here in Iowa gets absolutely convinced that 50 million people can vote for us.
And he said, oh, I'm serious.
in the election is whether 30 would come out on both of them or 32 or 35 or 37 or whether 50, one, two, or three.
He said, our range is 50 to 53 million.
The governor's range is the balance depending on the size of the draft.
He said, he put out a press release today and she wasn't going to lie.
She wasn't.
who says that the other side, really, it's not a question that they've been undecided.
They don't want to do it for the government.
And their option is probably to say, oh, it's for the non-democratic that you pointed out.
And I decided that they're going to leave that figure, that it could go the borderline against us.
And he's done what he has done, which I believe is a horrible assumption.
Horrible assumption, yeah.
Horrible assumption.
Well, my view is,
The, uh, this is really, you know, I think it's post.
I, I, I sort of hate to see us have to take them all on, take them all on and build a goddamn thing like this anyway.
But, on the other hand, we just can't have our own people sit there in our foxhole and have the shit kicked out of them that way.
And I just have to allow it.
They tell me, Cedric did one hell of a job in this first one.
And, uh, and Dr. Dowd.
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I don't personally know.
Tell me, where is he now?
I hope he's out.
I hope he went back.
President, he hasn't been here in a minute.
We want to meet with him.
You know, he could help us with the cutting.
He's out in the system.
If he had not, well, yes, he could.
He's been out there.
He's very effective.
If he had not, what's the safe way?
How does he feel?
He could change forever.
Forever.
How's it possible?
It's literally, it's for, it's what you do.
What do you do, sir?
What do you do?
I don't know.
Well, that, that we're not doing.
I don't, that's fair.
That's fair play.
Turn off in the morning, quit in the morning, do the next thing.
Totally.
Well, look at that.
Some of our people still suffer.
People still, you know, ever, ever, ever have to go out and do that stuff.
I think there's a way to get her out of trouble.
I don't care what I do.
I will fire anybody who does that.
I don't care.
The only one that went through that dedication was Roger.
Nobody said he could control me.
I said, you can cancel it.
We are going to ostracize him.
We can't do ostracize in time.
They're there.
I'd like one of our artists to rip, rip off his divine scheme.
I'm setting just two pluses and stuff.
You know, she's right over there.
And I'm setting two pluses and stuff.
And take, I gotta take scheme.
I'm gonna set up a jack-o'-lantern.
I'm gonna put a couple of hands on the light and throw it.
I'm just taking down this big rubber.
I'm gonna change that way.
I'm gonna push this.
I'm gonna do one hell of a hurry.
Because before this happens,
I know all sorts of people who ran into someone's body.
I will cover.
Bob Stanford.
When he came to town, he said, he said, he lives in this town.
Gradually, gradually, he got sober.
Well, when he got sober, he went to Washington and he went back to Vermont.
My God, it's real water for a lot of people.
It's real water for a lot of people.
It's real water for a lot of people.
It's real water for a lot of people.
They'll all do it.
They'll all do it.
Well, they're always going to have to do it.
You remember when the last, when the Chapin story broke, they came from four to six and a half minutes each.
On the Chapin story, on Monday night, well, that break, they didn't do the same thing.
That was the day I went to the vet.
You don't have to deal with that.
That's right.
We get the money in the bank.
That's right.
Tomorrow is the day.
Every day, you know, we're going to have so many of those that these people that we're saying that the president ought to make these speeches, they're totally silent on the team.
They definitely do.
It's not the time.
Except for when you think you've got to make a speech, move around.
You can't speak to a row of these days when they're out there shouting about you.
Everything on the channel.
The biggest thing, Mr. Bristol, is to say the right thing.
Just answer the right questions.
No, sometimes we do.
It's really, really well done.
Gregor, Gregor, is the biggest man that I've met.
I've also sent checklists to our hard core workers out in the country, saying, you don't have to be defensive with this.
You can go ahead.
And we'll give that a little nasty.
The big complaint is that we haven't been asking people why.
A couple of months, I've had old friends in the party who, in fact, why don't you just do what you want?
Why don't you get out on the television?
Because that is an equal thing.
that you're not a stranger.
You don't follow suit.
You go out of suit some of the time next week.
You don't want to sit in the room.
You don't want to disturb your husband.
You don't want to follow suit.
You probably should not then.
You probably should not then.
And finally, you should help my mother.
I agree.
I agree.
I wouldn't stand in your house.
As far as I'm concerned.
What about you?
I absolutely wouldn't stay in your house.
It would pretty much touch your mind.
Yeah.
So if I wanted to, I think you might.
That's not a way to get out.
That's not a way to get out.
They don't realize how rough life is.
I do.
There's a nice guy around here a lot of times.
And I always, I always do a play on a hard-headed basis.
But when I start, I will tell them.
I remember the question about it.
The way we handle it on a vehicle, the way we handle it on the factory.
They should give some thought to taking on the guy that can't go even a mile.
What the hell is it that they're doing up there?
I'm not going to be strutting.
I'm not going to do it against free speech, but it's not going to be their speech.
It's going to be ours.
I think exactly what they think.
They're bigger than us.
They'll attack us.
And then afterwards, it'll be nice and nice.
They'll come to us and say, well, now we've been together.
It can be a genre.
We're here in this town together.
We want to get along.
They'll be there.
They'll be very positive.
I thought that was a good thing.
I need a little time.
I don't have that time.
Boston said that they could just go out there and just go out there and just do it.
And Boston said, we're ready to go out there and just go out there and just do it.
We can do stuff.
We can do stuff.
That's true.
Boston said they'll do it.
They'll wipe out the world.
That's what they'll do.
They'll suffer.
They'll die.
I think there's a way to get control of it.
That would be the only .
They really, they're very, they have an influence .
It's got a gradient of color to it.
It's got the DLP.
It's got a DCVS outlet.
It's served mostly in Manhattan.
It's just covered in plastic.
At least you never got that.
They have a lot of ghosts in here.
Well, there's another reason.
There was a church.
You could get a product like that.
I'm not sure.
So it has to be at the next turn.
We'll check that out and find out.
I mean, there are people that will be asking what they can do.
What they should do is perform a set of moves.
That's the way to do it folks.
I was not worried about watergates, but just reporting that he was getting some crap as first time.
First time he was getting that as well.
And he said, they're running a deal.
And he said, what was I saying?
Did he know who they were for when they dropped?
That's the real point.
You need to find and check the watergates if people are going to change their mind.
We're all ready for the other problem.
It's an idea that I developed.
I used it in the 50s and 60s.
But it is enormously effective.
And a very easy, painless way to use it.
It's great.
The way I use it, I try to use it for a good profit.
Television requires different things.
It requires enormous preparation and all that stuff.
And you should only use it for very big plays.
You know, the way I steal that TV all the time.
Oh, I think that's right.
I don't think it's going to work.
Oh, well, it can be a user.
You can do anything.
Like Wi-Fi?
No, Wi-Fi is great.
I think what we should do is we should get Scali to go back in the air.
But I want him to go with a top capacity.
I'd like for him to be the head of the Department.
Do you think we can help him do that?
What he wants to do.
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I'll tell you, if you look at my inside, back, and every story, it's a few hours because he would know that he would have to go to that police station.
And we'll break the other two networks, but they don't help.
And we'll all just screw right over the night.
But actually, it was not.
It was a great emotional thing to do with you.
And I know that it's likely going to last for one of the three networks.
Checking on whether he thinks he might go back to California.
But let's get on the attack again.
Yes, sir.
Sure does.
I mean, I talked a lot of times today, but the best political broadcast I've ever seen is from his prime minister.
You mean him?
I mean, sorry.
I shouldn't say that.
Well, it's not a joke, you see.
I'm sure he did.
I'm sure he did a good thing.
He spent a lot of time at home.
Jay, I'm still thinking about it.
I'm still thinking about it.
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Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
See, that's the key.
The bank briefs many, many more than us want, because many of the other organizations are afraid of it.
And we're not talking through just a president or some assistant.
There's no coalition government.
We've got to get our prisoners back to town.
We've got to get them back to town.
We've got to get them back to town.
You know what it says, though?
people racing in the last few months have mostly texted people or undecided.
Well, we're watching, maybe, uh, well, Chuck?
Sure.
If you make it, if the, but if numbers are not changed, you definitely have to change it over.
They, uh, it's actually what, very funny, very nice, something to watch, funny to read.
Uh, we'll add what they said, I believe what they said was there was a funny guy, uh,
Well, like I said, I was right.
And my view is that what it is that our office of charge is about 61, I think it's where it is.
And I think the rest of it is agreed.
I've decided with my government to vote for them if they vote.
But if they don't vote, we'll go up on it.
If they do vote, we'll go up on it.
So I think that's exactly what I think.
But he said there was a problem there.
And what it was, honestly, he said, there was a problem.
but how people's lives are made up for us is strong.
I don't think they don't pull it off.
In fact, I think that's easy and hurting for a piece of water.
It's a great undertaking, unfortunately, because it can get mad.
We're fortified.
And some of those who may be being the one who wants to know what's going on there.
You know, it's your own people who get the most out of it.
But today, we'll see how it plays out.
We had to do it one day.
It would not be a bad idea.
Just to let our people know that we're going to do it.
We're not hiding something.
That's the best we can do.
We're not afraid of it.
We're not afraid to talk about it.
There aren't any things that we can do.
That's it.
But a good swing covers that emotion for those who are in charge.
That's what we did.
We did very well.
So, that was our work for today.
The only thing that will have any effect at all is that it has to have spots on it.
See that?
You can't do those.
But you can sure move it up so you can see the spots there.
I just thought it was like, God, we've got to do something.
We can't waste it.
We've got to move it up so we can see the spots there.
You've got to stop it one thing.
In fact, I said it over again.
I'm not so sure it's supposed to be a human brain.
We'll look at that later.
This is a kind of corruption.
This is kind of a heavy discussion.
This is a political game-play.
And I'm not even sure if you've got a solid corruption chain with them, necessarily, in the real military.
I think there are other issues that are more important.
So, if you're all right with the breadbasket issue, if you're all right with the peace issue, then we'll override the corruption issue.
That's right.
Okay, Robert, good to continue.
Yeah, all through.
Yeah.
That's right.
That's correct.
That's right.
Now the issue is that I was heartily amazed at the way you said we would not use Harris-Cole, we would not use this area, and we were being ahead of all the issues.
Because, oh, I was going to agree with you.
Well, that said, the last night at camp,
I was not that much of a leader.
I was not that much of a story.
But I said, on 6-0-5, he can't make a decision.
I said, I'm going to go on 6-0-5, he can't make a decision.
I said, I'm going to go on 6-0-5, he can't make a decision.
I said, I'm going to go on 6-0-5,
I've been thinking of a specific set of concepts that I've been thinking of.
I've been thinking of a specific set of concepts that I've been thinking of.
I've been thinking of a specific set of concepts that I've been
We're doing the right thing.
We're really in a hard place in this place.
Oh, well.
In fact, the uncertainty, of course, is bothering me.
So I did all of that together.
Well, it is going to come out for the rich.
Well, that's an exhortation to, A, come out and see it for me.
And I'm very proud.
And we're just going to have to go hard on it.
And they don't like it, too.
And they have to do what they have to do.
But I think that
The oral public needs to have some reassurance that there is progress being made with it.
If they don't know this, we have a lot more about the intricacies of that situation.
The public just wants to see the world a little bit, but they don't want to see it.
And if they have progress that's being made,
That's really all that matters.
At some point, they have to give it a shot.
Sure, sir.
It's the people who are attacking on Vietnam.
Sure.
Well, they are.
In fact, attack on Amnesty, attack on, you know, the ones, the issues, you know, on B.O.W., the ban on B.O.W., and surrender, turn the country over to the communists.
Just those three things.
All that's there.
That's really all.
But you don't hear this much.
This is opposition.
But it's potentially a very good approach.
You know, I know, you know, we're going to have to go, you know,
But I think if Henry is in a position to bring himself up, we hope so, and if he is, then that's all that's going to affect him.
I think that this is Roger's attachment to him for his total irresponsible statements.
I think that would put us in the best possible position.
I don't know if you said that.
and then Rogers said that the car had been attacked and wanted to get out of the van
Do you, uh, comment on somebody?
Do you pray for, uh, 5-0-2-0?
5.
Lou Harris, uh, Monday night, asked me about this, and I said, just listening to him, he said, all of the public needs to know is that we are making progress, and every board, and every dedication is part of that.
There's a need for freedom.
Larry is back here on Tuesday.
It doesn't appear like that to be a problem.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
He said, what you want to do is reissue the people that you're not doing for the police.
That's all I want you to do.
I want to try to give you a brief rundown of the affairs of Vietnam.
But he's just saying that we're building up this anticipation.
And the only thing that will be very, very reassuring to the people
I think that the other side of the
The worst thing would be to have anything to do with the National Board of Directors.
And so that would go to the system.
Because it was looking like it was a .
He said, that would be interpreted as, we did this, but they don't want me to look like I'm political.
I should have asked this question.
But both of them take the fact that the Paris special was that the people of that anticipation
I just want to get a few more answers.
So one other point that I wanted to ask you to do is, when the tape is over, is the company going to work it out?
And can we, after this is done at all?
Because, A, we might have to kick the shit out of our government, but B, we're going to have to be reassured that we're not going to force the coalition to come together.
I thought that was a great method.
Well, I was prepared, I think.
We are going to have to be prepared in May and July for what we did.
We will be in the U.S. before you set out to do it.
We have a lot of stuff, but we're going to have to put out by the end of the month.
Everything is going to be okay.
We're going to have to go through face-to-face and then we're going to have to go to the other side.
That's what we're going to have to do.
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Well, I said to them, what I don't want to say is that we want them to start election day in order to keep together.
That's right.
Keep them loose.
I said, my instructions from the president made no attention to the election.
I said, back with them.
We wanted to book up a deal.
We could do it now.
That's right.
But what we wanted to see was an American city.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
and then I'm going to be separated into a group.
The other time, something came in and told me that I needed to be fired.
The other thing would be, what it takes to put this control machine in place, and then to be fired, and see if it ever worked out, and don't have a matter, because I'd have to...
So, only if I could understand that.
Yes, but that track was all I did, and a lot of the things that we did, I didn't put that in the car.
I gave him a little more.
I gave him essentially the same stuff.
But he, of course, is a lot of the other children.
I think we'll get this thread through.
I don't want to believe that I haven't done the breathing.
I don't want to find out.
that we're not going to do it for political purposes, and that we're going to have honor, and I surrender that there is no intimidation of a communist.
I can guarantee that if I said on Friday, I think either of you would have done this, but if you knew that on Friday, you probably wouldn't have done it one week.
You know, she has been bouncing off the airplane.
In fact, she might be absent for a couple of weeks.
And the general statement is that she's done it.
And she's done it once.
And he said he could have just three years ago.
And he said, we're going to break it over to him too.
And he said, he's just going from one issue to another.
He said, we'll give him one week to act.
So next week.
And Roger was there.
And I knew I was going to bring him felt.
And where it hurts, that's where it goes.
Because he's been acting all over a lot of things.
Once Henry said to me, I'm going to put this right.
We've all got to wait on it.
We're going to put this right.
But I can do it Friday or the other way around.
You can do it Friday.
It has one advantage.
It's Friday night TV, which is very important to get a big audience.
Also, it will be software that you will get.
We run Sunday.
We do it Friday at the second hour.
We have no reaction.
No, but they're getting ready to play the game.
and because Americans put you up, you always did.
But that's all right.
I don't want to do it.
That's what worries me.
First of all, this guy is distracted.
These may not be mentioned, but these, in preparation for the 7th Act, would expire in every credit order that it is.
Uh, the, the, the beating up, the, the, the death of the enemy, the death of the enemy, the death of the enemy, the death of the enemy, the death of the enemy, the death of the enemy,
The president had no choice but to be cut in two after he left the town.
He had either to come along, or he would have to go.
Or he would have to get the message.
My life was in prison, so I was taken home, so I was taken to prison, so I was taken to prison.
But we can't, what he's proving to me is not the way it is.
but if we get out of these terms he can be making but we cannot find energy in the land
Kendra, who's working on me today, said I want to tell you something that's out of my business.
I don't understand the context behind it.
Don't settle the mortgage for the election.
I'm going through it for everything.
Money takes the best of it.
It makes the best of it.
We've settled it.
Two things will happen.
There'll be political war, they'll say.
It's not easy.
I think that you may have said so.
I think we're better off with the better.
If you're second, sure.
If you go on to November 20th or around there, if you're still in the flush of the victory, you won't have a McGovern sitting all over your deep flat, you know, with all your people behind you.
And if you don't seem to need it for the election,
I actually think we may, we may be lucking out.
We may get a great deal.
Of course, it's not the time for an argument.
It's still time for an argument.
I gave the briefing to the Canadian, to the Australian side, which is therefore described as...
Well, Riley, I've read many of those.
I think by exhibiting a message to them today, they'll have a message by tomorrow night.
I had to carry them.
I had to carry them.
I told them off.
I did stuff on them.
That's a hell of a thing to do.
We're getting a text message.
Everyone is reporting progress.
I want to put it in.
We're not taking time.
I'll call around with you to contribute a couple of text messages.
But we have to be careful.
I told Buck that he had to go in and meet you every other day and keep moving.
On the other hand, he should not have to because we don't want you to go
I've had to tell this guy to step aside for about 10 hours.
He must be out of nowhere.
He looks like he's going to step in my business class today.
And I'm trying to negotiate with him tonight.
You're a good son.
You can have this.
I'm not going to be quiet about it.
You're going to have to do this for the damn time.
I had a few brief little talks with the school and said, thank God I've got a new head of the school on the other side.
But still, that's the best that we think.
Who would have thought we'd have the new head of the school?
There's no reason we couldn't have the fellow.
Not sure which, not exactly what we wanted.
Right.
It's a nice comparison.
And I guess the children just have to follow it.
You know what it is?
He's afraid to walk alone.
He's afraid of the political context.
He's a military man.
He knows how to control the military situation.
He knows how to have the technical status.
I think it's a business.
This way, you, you, life is spectacular.
If you had gone on, maybe it would have given you 10, 20 more points.
I don't know about that.
So I'm moving at his pace, doing what I'm saying.
Did that impress Smith?
Did that impress Smith?
Oh, God, yes.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
We've never said we're going to see one man in all this world today.
But we did say we could give him a chance.
I don't know about the timeline, but it's totally, you know, 500 years ago.
But what's the timeline?
The timeline says that, you know, it's about a decade ago.
And who should have said it?
We have.
Of course.
I mean, there's folks that have said it.
What do you think about that?
They sent a surgical dispatch to a lot of the other foreign countries, the British got one, the Ukrainians got one, in which they were briefing on this.
I already came to see you late Tuesday.
I saw his car up there.
How was it?
How was Cromwell?
Well, they got the dispatch from Saigon about what he was talking about, and he said he was alone.
And so I expected him that it wasn't him, and he started the building up before we went through.
Well, in 68, he was right.
72 was wrong.
Basically, it's right.
And in 68, he was dealing with a man who had lost a lot of shit.
at enormous cost.
I think frankly what we've been through in time and emotion and strain and everything, it's not been easy at all for all of us, is it?
We've got to get it off our backs.
Thank you.
Well, after all, Abrams is foreign.
The other guy really is, I don't know if he talks in the military, but he drags the speed of Westmoreland.
But I think Westmoreland is starting to be frustrating.
But as Westmoreland is looking at it, it's going to take them.
No, that's what I was expecting to see, but he's a good, good juggler.
He's a good guy.
You're setting up hurdles you know we can't lose.
They've got to get out of the sun.
They won't get out of the sun.
They're getting out of the sun because it's only going to be delayed.
They're coming back by six months if they want to come back.
They're right there.
They're just dragged out there.
Whether they want to keep using it or not, what they have in is out of town.
It's not enough for them to go out and invest in it.
This is one other thing, too.
Our economic assistance to them is going to be conditional.
Whether they're screwing around or not, that's cool.
That is the best kind of thing we have.