Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 450-008
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1971 at 9:35 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Walters, Vernon A.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/450-008

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[0:00] Go ahead, man.
[0:08] All right.
[0:08] All right.
[29:44] It's just beyond any concept.
[30:07] There isn't even a war in South Vietnam anymore.
[30:23] The war is outside the borders of South Vietnam.
[30:24] Sure.
[30:24] I have never been to any of the wars in Paris.
[30:25] It's only been six months ago that I've been there.
[30:26] I've been there since Kobe.
[30:27] I used to go there to get down there to get to the army.
[30:28] I used to fight there.
[30:28] Now they're raiding our hands and wondering where it's going to stop.
[30:31] It's pretty wonderful in South Vietnam.
[30:32] I've been in office here, I don't know, maybe four years in Paris.
[30:35] I just think if you stay 40 years, you will realize there's a little problem.
[30:52] You lose your ability to look at the truth and you run off with no activity.
[30:55] I just think if you stay 40 years, you will realize there's a little problem.
[31:00] You lose your ability to look at the truth and you run off with no activity.
[31:02] The local people would have had a little bit of interest in the U.S. Air Force if you were here.
[31:19] So, uh, well, we would like to, uh, I don't know what to do about it.
[31:31] Give us a thought on what kind of a cycle you think you'd like to ride in a racing car.
[31:33] Well, there's a kind of rear-on test.
[31:34] I'm prepared as I can go, but I've got to ask the person.
[31:36] I didn't tell you so fast.
[31:38] I get this as long as I can run it.
[31:39] Long as I can get it up to the airport.
[31:40] I'd like you to do some other questions, though.
[31:41] Yes, very much so.
[31:41] You know, I said, you know, you just stay down there, sir.
[31:44] I've been thinking about all the negative thoughts you've got.
[31:56] I've been thinking about you.
[31:56] I've been thinking about you.
[31:57] I've been thinking about you.
[31:57] I've been thinking about you.
[31:58] I've been thinking about you.
[32:03] Yeah, I don't see a negative here.
[32:20] I don't see any dirty bits here.
[32:20] And this is all a place where I told myself, you know, I'm just dying to see what I'm doing, whether I'm staying or whether I'm, you know, obviously I'm not getting something on the outside.
[32:24] I don't recognize this place.
[32:25] What would you think about coming here for a while?
[32:26] It wouldn't, frankly, be bad for you to spend a year here.
[32:27] Well, I don't know if that's going to be good for me if you go back to what I was doing as a tech guy.
[32:47] No, no.
[32:47] I think it would be good to know you as a tech guy.
[32:49] Probably in the 90s.
[32:49] Yeah, well, even then, I'm getting more and more scared.
[32:50] I'm in my 20s.
[32:50] I'm going to be better than you.
[32:51] You prefer to talk to me.
[32:52] You're real.
[32:52] If I were a tech guy, then I'd be a bad guy.
[32:53] You see, we've got a bit of it.
[32:53] I've got a sense of the sort of thing as a tech guy.
[33:00] Do you ever want to make that assumption?
[33:17] That's the point.
[33:17] You'd be very good with that.
[33:19] I'm wondering if there's any technology involved in the, uh, does it be translated?
[33:21] Well, you know, we're trying to find out.
[33:22] But the fact is, on the way to Johnson, I've been making a good year of facing Johnson.
[33:23] There's other things we've got in the way.
[33:24] Sure.
[33:24] Well, you know, we might find some other sign of that, sir.
[33:31] Good afternoon, I'd like to talk to you.
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