Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 440-042
Date: Thursday, May 24, 1973 at 1:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/440-042

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[0:07] and flavors and things.
[1:02] Yeah.
[1:10] That's right.
[1:18] You could tell them that.
[1:19] That's another possible way.
[1:21] You might like to learn this.
[1:22] Yeah.
[1:33] ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
[2:04] And it would be good if we get some controversy started.
[2:13] The New York Times will squeal and say that it's terrible and so on and so on and can't protect our national secrets.
[2:16] Why do we have to have secret funds?
[2:16] But you see, I made a very powerful point there.
[2:20] I said if they would still be in power, we wouldn't have had China and we wouldn't have had Russia if we had not stopped the leaks.
[2:27] And that's just the God's truth.
[2:34] Okay.