On March 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:23 pm to 4:39 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 421-013 of the White House Tapes.
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Well, anyhow, do you have any further thoughts with regard to our .
I'm waiting for .
Yeah, let me say this.
I've been thinking about it.
I've been thinking about it.
Thank you.
Yeah, I want to tell you what I did on that .
The agreement is that we expect them out of Laos then.
That part of the agreement.
But I certainly, I don't think that I can justify this.
At least nine guys were there, they had a right to get arrested.
Every one of them, which is important.
So in other words, when Scowcroft raised this this morning,
Is that sound about right to you?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
What?
They were some.
The eye couldn't sense that.
So at the moment,
American Press, of course, just made something entirely different over the two.
I was just thinking, you know, part of that.
So whatever, I think it doesn't go on that score.
I don't know if it's part of the reaction to your concerns.
I guess another thing to follow up.
Oh, yeah.
I just don't know that.
As a matter of fact, the point is, when you look at my statement last week, even when I was repressed, there's been sort of a claim that there has been some drop-off to the right.
That's true.
Well, that doesn't hurt us, though.
It doesn't hurt us here.
We don't believe in that.
I think the warning was probably worthwhile.
I don't like to make warnings.
I guess it was worthwhile.
They haven't done anything to make me have to do it.
That's the way we look at it.
You've got to figure this.
As a matter of fact, on that score,
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We put a couple of them to the right.
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I'm a couple of theses.
That's the problem.
You know, we're respectful.
I see what you're saying.
We're respectful of that.
You know, when you start to think of, you know, at this point, you're not the only one.
You know, there's a lot of people out there.
There's a lot of people out there.
Like, there's part of the problem.
I think this is amazing.
Well, we'll see.
Of course, he's sitting down there.
I don't know.
It's a little hard.
It's pretty easy to call him out there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
But what are you doing?
I didn't actually know you made them.
I'm sorry.
The defense is in it, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, looking at you.
Thank you.
Okay, I'll wait.