Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 455-012
Date: Monday, February 22, 1971 at 12:57 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Popper, David H.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Parker, David N.; Price, Raymond K., Jr.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/455-012

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[0:00] And uh, we are supposed to speak soon?
[0:14] Yes.
[0:19] I'd like also, if I may say so, to express his extreme pleasure and gratitude at the courtesy of showing and seeing him during today's celebration.
[0:43] He's stayed down here, sir, I remember, and he's really effective in a personal sense, and I'm very appreciative of it.
[0:45] I'm sure he appreciates it, I know I appreciate it.
[0:46] It will do us good for a long time to come.
[0:48] So everything, you know, we definitely discussed it.
[1:07] I remember the time we had the meeting there.
[1:08] Yeah, well, we were talking a little about it, but I'm sorry.
[1:09] He's still, look, haven't changed recently.
[1:10] He's still, I don't know, possibly he's seismic.
[1:11] And there is a temporary heat of the whole thing.
[1:12] There's a temporary stability there.
[1:13] Temporary stability.
[1:13] That's my opinion.
[1:13] I think we're going to try to make it last, Mr. President, as long as we have our plate of water in other areas of the eastern Mediterranean.
[1:16] Someday somebody will have to do something to try and help solve this problem, because someday it will blow up.
[1:34] But if this is not the day, I would guess, and I would think that the problem on the back burner is the last of your other difficulties.
[1:36] And you should meditate and sit down a bit.
[1:37] I think you may then be in a better position to meet whatever happens.
[1:39] Thank you.
[1:44] Very much so.
[1:58] And periodically, every three or four years, it seems to get bigger.
[1:59] There's no real now, they've got no way to save each other.
[2:00] They're going to save each other for the rest of their born days, and all their children, and all the rest, aren't they?
[2:03] I mean, what if it was management problems, that's all.
[2:04] But you can't manage it just as you can.
[2:05] A lot of people can't get along.
[2:25] It's because of the national differences and so forth.
[2:26] It's still going on.
[2:27] So they've left it.
[2:27] And the church is reaching that way.
[2:28] But they can get along.
[2:28] They live side by side.
[2:29] There is a period of peace.
[2:30] People do get in the habit of settling their problems in other ways than fighting.
[2:44] And I think the two years that we're fighting are so special.
[2:45] The two years these people have moved in that direction.
[2:48] Well, I guess why don't you stand in my bed at the end?
[3:07] You know, these are very solid, so they're very good.
[3:08] What should we expect them to be?
[3:09] They should be the number seven, not the number eight.
[3:10] Nothing good.
[3:10] Stability and accuracy and arm support.
[3:11] You want to be helpful.
[3:12] You know, you have to have stability.
[3:12] You can stay with a bad guy.
[3:13] You know, he has to be messing around, and everyone's doing it.
[3:14] You have to have stability.
[3:15] Stability and accuracy and arm support.
[3:16] You want to be helpful.
[3:16] You know, you have to have stability.
[3:22] Thank you.
[3:37] Thank you.
[3:46] Thank you very much, Mr. President.
[4:07] Well, I hope you enjoy your assignment.
[4:07] Well, it's good to have a hot place.
[4:08] That's hot.
[4:08] That's hot.
[4:09] Thank you very much.