Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 540-001
Date: Tuesday, July 20, 1971 at 7:35 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.; Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/540-001

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[0:03] Mr. President, I agree to this.
[0:22] I will not try to convince Dennis of any very major news.
[0:23] Why don't we?
[0:23] I don't think we are.
[0:24] But they're going to.
[0:24] They're acting.
[0:24] They're getting together.
[0:25] And we support the presence of the United States in negotiations consistent with our objectives to include it.
[0:29] ceasefire, the release of POWs, and honor, and negotiate an honorable end to the war against the separatists, the ceasefire, the release of POWs, and a settlement which will respect the right of all nations in the area to live in peace, free from outside interference.
[0:51] God will be moved by fantasy.
[0:52] It's just basically summarizing our things in three points so that they .
[1:18] Having acted in the House, not acted.
[1:19] I've never known a Congress where they don't put in something, you know what I mean?
[1:20] They've got to do something.
[1:21] You're right, they should have not.
[1:22] The great person he is, what we wanted and felt could probably get man to be able to do it.
[1:43] Let's say if a dentist agrees to have nothing and you try to get him to do it, okay, fine.
[1:45] You get my point.
[1:45] In other words, we don't have...
[1:46] I think we get the dentist to pay there and say, no, here's the situation.
[1:47] It would be useful to have nothing.
[1:48] Can you swing it?
[1:48] And they say, we can't.
[1:49] No, we can't.
[1:49] Look, if they can't,
[1:50] and you try to get Mansfield to take something like this, that's what I would be talking about, sir.
[2:09] I think that he is the way that Mansfield may affect him a little bit, though I don't know.
[2:11] You know this?
[2:11] Yeah, but that's about as much as he could do.
[2:12] Okay.
[2:12] You guys are done.
[2:13] We'll all go together.
[2:13] I'm just going to do it the same way that you guys are going to do it.