Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 496-001
Date: Monday, May 10, 1971 at 8:00 AM
Participants: [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/496-001

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[0:00] Oh, no.
[0:28] He asked me if I could take a life off.
[0:52] He said, well, no.
[0:52] No.
[0:52] Normally, there's no children.
[0:53] There's no, uh...
[0:53] There's a lot of them.
[0:54] I just want to be able to sit down there and see if there's children.
[0:55] And he said, I'm looking.
[0:56] He asked me if I could take a life off.
[0:57] He said, well, no.
[0:57] He asked me if I could take a life off.
[0:59] I don't know what I'm doing.
[1:15] I'm all scared.
[1:15] I don't know.
[1:15] I don't know.
[1:16] I don't know.
[1:16] I don't know.
[1:16] I don't know.
[1:17] I don't know.
[1:17] I don't know.
[1:17] I don't know.
[1:17] I don't know.
[1:47] It's warm in here.
[2:10] Wait a minute.
[2:10] They were working on here at the emergency center.
[2:11] At that moment, there's no one's on guard.
[2:12] See, he doesn't get it normally.
[2:13] He doesn't get it.
[2:13] There's another one coming.
[2:14] I don't think we're going to make it.
[2:19] And how come those are dead?
[2:44] I don't know.
[2:45] I don't know.
[2:45] I don't know.
[3:11] Thank you.