Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 470-003
Date: Friday, March 19, 1971 at 8:51 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Moorer, Thomas H. (Adm.)
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/470-003

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:07] Okay.
[0:13] Good morning.
[0:29] Yeah.
[0:29] All right.
[0:29] Sorry.
[0:29] Sorry.
[0:29] Sorry.
[1:44] But he plans to, when you talk about April 5th, that he plans to be substantially out by then, or, and then just have to raise that with that, or what is the situation there?
[2:13] Yeah, what about the 1st of April?
[2:33] Direct assembly place enabled.
[3:14] I'm just looking for a new song.
[3:23] I need to call him.
[3:23] Thank you, sir.
[3:24] He gives us quite a bang.
[3:25] He does a song called The Name of Brady.
[3:27] Yeah.
[4:13] I don't know what the general thing is.
[4:22] Really, we know what is and what happens.
[4:29] At this point, the matter is figuring out how to interpret it.
[4:32] And, uh, I think, you know, the press expertly makes the appearance that this is a defeat or something like that.
[4:35] Well, actually, uh, hey, they just haven't, they just don't apply the point that we have made all along that they were going in there for this purpose.
[4:38] They, they emphasize the heaviness of Vietnamese losses.
[4:40] Can we get out anything on the North Vietnamese losses?
[4:52] Yeah, of course I was in the newspaper, yeah.
[4:57] And they needed us.
[4:58] They didn't show more understanding.
[5:17] Well, that's what we want.
[5:28] Continue on some other ratings for that report.
[5:35] In-laws.
[6:00] But it's just these individual pilots, crewmen, they get an interview that make it, who's trying to put out the... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[6:25] Yeah, yeah.
[6:49] Okay, thank you.