Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 593-009
Date: Friday, October 15, 1971 at 9:58 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/593-009

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[1:02:44] Yeah.
[1:02:44] About that he wants to visit the other countries too?
[1:02:46] No problem.
[1:02:47] And they will make the contact with the other countries?
[1:02:49] Yeah.
[1:02:49] Except for the Japanese.
[1:02:51] The Japanese.
[1:02:54] Okay.
[1:02:55] I'll talk to you tomorrow morning.
[1:02:58] Tomorrow morning.
[1:02:59] And if you need to talk, I'll be at the campaign.
[1:03:02] Good.
[1:03:02] Good luck.
[1:03:09] He still doesn't understand it.
[1:03:12] He is so overwhelmed with the idea that they are different and so are healthy.
[1:03:16] Nobody is talking about plunging into the crowds and all that sort of thing.
[1:03:21] He says, I handle these things discreetly.
[1:03:24] He knows that.
[1:03:26] He doesn't know.
[1:03:26] I'm not being tired of plunging into crowds.
[1:03:28] He said the same thing in Romania.
[1:03:30] I've never seen anybody as intoxicated into the crowds just as he was when you started.
[1:03:36] Getting that kind of response, he said, don't do it.
[1:03:39] Yeah, didn't he?
[1:03:39] Yeah.
[1:03:40] And it's just us using it.
[1:03:41] Now, Oscar, in Christ's day, they were getting ready to kill some of us when we stopped the motorcade.
[1:03:49] But the old boy never left your side, correct?
[1:03:51] The next day, remember, he was supposed to go out alone.
[1:03:53] There he was at the front doorstep, but when it came time to go, he was about to pass out of it.
[1:03:58] All those people in the balcony will hear you say, I'm in Russia.
[1:04:00] And I've got it all over the world.
[1:04:02] And I was told by every Foreign Service officer who faces the world, these people are different.
[1:04:06] They don't believe in it.
[1:04:07] They're very proper and so forth.
[1:04:08] But God damn it, the Americans do it.
[1:04:11] Now, there is a line.
[1:04:12] You don't cross Johnson's accrued son of a bitch.
[1:04:15] You cross in, kiss babies, and put his arms through the ass of the man.
[1:04:20] That's right.
[1:04:21] That isn't it.
[1:04:21] But I didn't do it that way, sir.
[1:04:23] And Henry's got to see that, too.
[1:04:24] And he knows God damn well that's true.
[1:04:27] Oh.
[1:04:29] It may not.
[1:04:30] We may not have the option.
[1:04:32] If we don't have the option, as you said, there are other ways.
[1:04:34] If you're waiting, maybe a small act.
[1:04:36] Well, there might be a photographer somewhere, and you're walking into a building, there's a doorman who will leave the door open or something, or a waiter standing there, and you stop and go over and talk to him for a few minutes, or call your interpreter over, and you have a little chat.
[1:04:51] But this is all she finds, and so do you all the time.