Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 375-019
Date: Thursday, October 26, 1972 at 2:50 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/375-019

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:03] Yeah.
[0:04] Because Henry's comparing, I don't want to bother him.
[0:14] But this thought killed him.
[0:16] A major point that I know has to be covered with this thing about the election and the fact that he didn't cross.
[0:25] But there you go.
[0:28] Yeah, that's right, that's what happened.
[0:34] I would put it, you've got to put it, what words do you want me to say?
[0:42] Our interest is the right kind of peace and peace that will last.
[0:48] Not the kind of peace we had after, I mean, we've been around this track in 1952, the settlement on Laos.
[0:50] Did we make that point?
[0:51] Yeah, but I mean, let me make the point too.
[0:52] In Laos, we had a settlement.
[0:53] And it gave us a, however, it led to just a continued war.
[0:59] This time a lot of peace that will last.
[1:03] In other words, yeah, and then you could say that what the president says, our English is not peace for the next election, but peace for the next generation.
[1:10] So just want to use that phrase.
[1:12] Okay.