Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 531-008
Date: Monday, June 28, 1971 at 4:47 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Parker, T. Warren; Colson, Charles W.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/531-008

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[0:08] We're here since 1967, right?
[0:19] All right.
[0:19] That's right.
[0:19] Come over here.
[0:20] We're going to get you a picture you can take later.
[0:21] You better remember that all of them today is that you're close to driving over this.
[0:27] Thank you.
[0:31] Well, I think it was a pretty good work.
[0:44] Very much.
[0:47] I'm kind of lost.
[0:48] He seems pretty good.
[0:48] He's the best.
[0:48] He's going into brain groups.
[0:49] I know.
[0:49] You were in the brain group.
[0:50] You were in the brain group.
[0:51] DLT program.
[0:51] Yeah.
[0:51] Maryland?
[0:52] Yes.
[0:52] You're going to Maryland, right?
[0:52] How old?
[0:53] 22.
[0:55] Good job.
[0:56] He said, he said, you're a mature 22.
[1:10] You can go on.
[1:11] I'm a mature 26.
[1:12] Well, what are we going to give him?
[1:13] Should we give him, like, a paperweight?
[1:16] Yeah, that's it.
[1:17] We're going to give him a paperweight.
[1:18] We're going to give him a paperweight.
[1:21] We're going to give him a paperweight.
[1:22] We're going to give him a paperweight.
[1:23] We're going to give him a paperweight.
[1:24] They ate and they died.
[1:33] They could fight, but they couldn't cook.
[1:38] I was, uh, out where I was, I was out there in the, uh, the city.
[1:48] They, uh, I ate with the, uh, wearing the skirts and my hair was on fire.
[1:50] The Air Force got all the food, the seas, the Marines had to pick it up, they had to pick it up.
[1:52] So I did, but they weren't strong enough.
[1:54] Well, I wish you well.
[1:56] We'll try to keep you out of war.
[1:58] Thank you.
[1:59] I think we will.