Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 584-001
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 1971 at 8:56 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/584-001

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[0:00] Oh, well, I guess you don't want to announce that, probably.
[0:08] That's the nicest thing I've ever heard.
[0:12] I think it would be a good thing to be doing that, you know.
[0:17] It'll be far more effective than rock-paper-scissors.
[0:18] Got it?
[0:18] Oh, very nice.
[0:19] Right.
[0:19] Now, the other thing that you might do is this.
[0:21] You might, uh, this is another good one for me.
[0:26] Well, they have, because it's just too much to over there.
[0:38] You get an argument.
[0:39] But Latin America, nobody's in there, you know?
[0:42] And I really do have a special feeling for those people, not only because they're close, but also because they're damn good people.
[0:46] I mean, whether they're dictated or whatever they are, they're one who is.
[0:50] Now, you know, we talked once about the possibility of going to some place for a,
[0:55] He has a state meeting or something like that.
[1:02] I don't know if that's in the cards.
[1:03] I'm not speaking to each other, but it might be.
[1:07] But, you know, do you remember Eisenhower when the Panama has a state meeting?
[1:11] And we really ought to do, particularly with the two that are coming up now, this thing, I mean, particularly China and Russia, and, you know, Japan and the winds.
[1:28] Latin America would, and we're doing Canada, of course, and I've done Mexico, but Latin America really ought to have something done.
[1:34] Telling the president, I don't, as far as I mean, you might, you know, just a little attention to those people was terrific, see.
[1:53] Why don't you all get to it?
[1:54] And what I was thinking was maybe, not a grant, or we get it done in any place, but you might go to a rather safe city in some place.
[1:59] There must be one down there.
[2:00] Well, maybe in Paraguay.
[2:01] I'm stressed, it's pretty tough.
[2:03] Okay.