Conversation 639-025

TapeTape 639StartSaturday, December 18, 1971 at 5:03 PMEndSaturday, December 18, 1971 at 6:35 PMTape start time02:22:17Tape end time03:54:12ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Schecter, Jerrold L.;  Sidey, Hugh S.;  Donovan, Hedley W.;  Grunwald, Henry A.;  White House photographerRecording deviceOval Office

On December 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Jerrold L. Schecter, Hugh S. Sidey, Hedley W. Donovan, Henry A. Grunwald, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:03 pm to 6:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 639-025 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 639-025

Date: December 19, 1971
Time: 5:03 pm - 6:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Jerrold L. Schecter, Hugh S. Sidey, Hedley W. Donovan, and Henry A.
Grunwald; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

     General conversation

     The President’s term
          -Appraisal
               -Franklin D. Roosevelt
               -War
               -January 1969
                      -US economy

     Vietnam
          -US role

     Middle East

     New York City

     Vietnam

            -Historical context

     People's Republic of China [PRC]
          -Communication with US

     Vietnam

     US world role
         -Protector

     Domestic issues
         -Economic policy
                -Inflation
                -Housing
                -Future price rises
                       -Comparison to 1971
                -Jobs
                -Inflation
         -Monetary policy
                -Meeting with Europeans
                -Convertibility of the dollar [?]
         -Environment
         -Drugs
         -Revenue sharing
         -Welfare
                -Work requirements
         -Health
         -Government reorganization

     Decisions made by the President
          -PRC overture
               -Importance
          -Economic policy
               -Inflation
                      -Jobs
               -International monetary crisis
                      -US role
               -Free market economy
                      -American economy
                            -Probable outlook
                                 -Phase II

                 -Predictions for 1972 economy
                 -Controls
                 -Confidence
                 -Inflation
                 -Wage-price controls
                        -Support of US citizens
                               -Importance
                                    -Success of controls
                        -Inflation
                        -Decontrol
                 -American people
                        -Commitment to control inflation

     Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]-US relations
          -Upcoming summit
                -Berlin
                -Seabeds
                -Biological and accidental war
                -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                -South Asia
                -Middle East
          -President’s upcoming trip to PRC
          -South Asia
          -India-Pakistan conflict
                -Ceasefire
          -Areas of agreement between US and USSR
                -Berlin
                -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                -Arms control

     India-Pakistan conflict
           -India operations in East Pakistan and West Pakistan
                 -Strategy
                       -Reports

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     India-Pakistan conflict
           -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

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     India-Pakistan conflict
           -US role

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     India–Pakistan conflict
           -The President’s conversation with Indira Gandhi
                -Unknown airport
                -Death of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
                      -Tashkent negotiations
                -Positivity
                -West Pakistan
                      -President’s opinion of Indira Gandhi’s attitude towards West Pakistan
                      -Importance
                      -US interests
                      -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                -US position

     Middle East
          -Israel

                  -US emotional ties
                  -Actions

     South Asia

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     PRC
            -Henry A. Kissinger
            -Brezhnev

     US foreign policy
          -Thought and care exercised
          -PRC trip
               -Purpose
          -USSR trip
               -Purpose
          -Long-term

     Upcoming election
         -Foreign and domestic policy
               -Fulfillment of objectives
         -Congress
               -Democratic majority
         -President's plans
               -Opposition candidates
               -Involvement in issues
                      -PRC
                      -USSR
                      -Vietnam
                            -Successful conclusion
                      -Domestic programs
                            -Revenue sharing
                            -Welfare reform
                            -Tax reform
         -Spiro T. Agnew
               -Expression of support
                      -Praise for Agnew

            -Democrats' nominee
                  -President’s opinion
            -Past elections
                  -Franklin D. Roosevelt
                  -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                  -Lyndon B. Johnson
                  -Majority president
                  -John F. Kennedy
            -Democrats' nominee
                  -Potential candidates
                        -Issues
                              -Vietnam
                              -Economy
                              -Cities
                              -Youth
                              -Race relations
                              -Vietnam

     Vietnam
          -End of war
               -Understanding
               -Historical view
                     -Possible outcome
                           -USSR
                           -PRC

     US-USSR relations
         -Middle East
              -Israel
              -Oil
              -Africa
         -South Asia
         -Cambodia
         -Laos
         -PRC
         -Summit meeting
              -Need for peace
              -Differences

     US-PRC relations
         -Possible future of relations
         -Vietnam
         -Korea
         -Japan
              -Power
         -PRC

     Need for charismatic leader
          -Types of leaders
               -Characteristics
          -Need for experience

     President's administration
           -Type of leadership
           -President's style
           -Need for confidence in leadership
           -PRC and USSR announcements
           -The President’s August 15, 1971 speech
           -PRC announcement
           -Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt
           -Vitality and style
           -Mood of US citizens
           -Expectations of US citizens
                 -Vietnam
                 -World leadership position
           -President’s opinion
                 -Recent past
                       -Lyndon B. Johnson
                       -Vietnam
                       -Drugs
                       -Violence in cities
           -US economy
                 -Effect of end of Vietnam war

     PRC

     USSR

     Economic policy

     Revenue sharing

     Government reorganization

     Expectations for coming year
          -Pride in US foreign policy
                -Middle East
          -Importance of US leadership role
                -US position in the world
          -Domestic issues
                -Housing
                -Busing
                      -Boston
                -Segregation
          -“Quiet revolution”

     US world role
         -Historic precedence
         -Expression of confidence
         -Peace possibilities
         -World War II
         -Dwight D. Eisenhower
         -John F. Kennedy
               -“Seize the moment” philosophy

     US relations with USSR and PRC
          -Strategy
          -Importance of PRC
          -Nuclear war
                -Global effects
                -Horrors
                -Prospects for confrontation
                      -Japan
          -Need for leadership
          -Competition
          -Cooperation
                -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson

                 -UN
                        -Times of peace
            -US and European power
                  -Britain
                  -France
                  -Germany
            -USSR
            -PRC
                  -Potential power
            -Japan
            -Latin America
                  -Brazil
            -Africa
                  -Potential power
            -South Asia
            -Need for balance of power
                  -Europe, Japan

     Presidency
           -Power
           -Motives
                -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
                      -Maturity of political figures
           -Bureaucracy
           -Press
           -Enjoyment of the job
                -Relations with Congress
                -Opportunity for leadership
                      -World peace
                      -Progress

     Christmas decorations
           -Number
           -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon [?]

     [General conversation]
          -Walter H. Annenberg's gift
                -“Star of the President”

      President's schedule
            -Bermuda

      Gifts
              -Money clips

      [General conversation]

Schecter, et al. left at 6:35 pm.

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I see you.
President, are you at the front of the Tribal?
I see you.
President, are you at the front of the Tribal?
I see you.
President, are you at the front of the Tribal?
I see you.
You have more really
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The rhythm of that is very much in terms of where we are.
But one way I can explain it to you is that it would be very difficult to embrace
I think there are others.
I think there are more here.
More of them.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
The problem is
It's hard to realize.
I guess you're right.
We're at 10%.
That's one of the economies.
That's very good.
Thank you.
Oh, my God.
Oh, there's water.
rather than the other way around.
And as far as the United States was concerned, the United States had the war in a way that it would not mean so much to the great region of our southern nation.
And to throw up our hands and say, no more, I'm just in and out of that, it's also the way it was when I was in and out of that already.
I know three great singers who have this large amount of money underneath that are never going to be able to get it out.
But we are going to have to stand up and be arrogant.
We've got a vision that we're going to be able to get it.
And that's why we're going to do it.
This is one of the things that the United States should be able to do on its own.
I can't say if you want to do it on your own.
You're there.
You're available to do this responsibility.
You can withdraw it from your side.
But if you're able to do it here, certainly you can't do it on your own.
You have to roll with these things.
But there are other parts of the country that need to be solved.
There's something that we talked about.
And maybe you can hear him.
Not in a spectacular way, not in a dramatic way that people would like, but in a dramatic way that people would like.
Now, I'll leave the word to you, Tom, as far as the plan goes.
Now, first, tie into all that.
Tie into all that and put it into your hand.
I'm on the job side.
On the real side.
Now, see, as a result of this, we may not be able to go back to where we were before.
Now, see, we probably wouldn't have any time to go back to where we were before.
We're going to go back to where we were before.
And after about a year and a half, we're going to go back to where we were before.
We're going to go back to where we were before.
We're going to go back to where we were before.
Thank you.
That's not...
We did not get to do this, but I think we're, I don't think there's a time for this.
I was afraid that, you know, that it would be a long time ago, but we got our hands full of libraries, and it's dramatic, and it's been a great experience for all of us.
And we hope to provide that after we're ready to do this in the future.
The very fact that he introduced
Yes, sir.
Perhaps I'm not entertained by some other girl.
I had a school in my life, of course.
I didn't want to do that.
I didn't want to do that.
I didn't want to do that.
Uh, and I say I'm critical, critical because, uh, I had a relationship with him the next day.
I had a relationship with him the next day.
I had a relationship with him the next day.
I had a relationship with him.
we hope that
It is apparent that the United States is trying to maintain its maintenance rate for a very long time.
And we did what they did in the United States.
We did what they did in the United States.
We did what they did in the United States.
We did what they did in the United States.
Because I am committed to free life.
I...
I...
I...
I...
I...
I...
I...
I...
I don't want this to distribute, but the piece was a strange, strong American cop, a man held by, held back by a gay girl in a democracy.
It's uh, it's gross.
It doesn't matter.
But I was terrified.
I was having to move up and move on.
I didn't do as many decisions as I did.
Because I was looking down the road and I saw that I was the first bus driver.
And I was the first person to race that bus.
And now they too can't drive.
But we will be in control throughout the economy as we see the development.
I can tell them that I served in Congress today, and as I head through here, I can tell you that it was the buyers
If you didn't get back to your function, I'm in trouble.
I would be in very much trouble.
I'm in less trouble because I know what I want to do and what I want to do.
If I believe in control, if I believe in this action, if I believe that the way to be longer in control is not the way to be, it's not the way to be, it's not the way to be.
I will be very much concerned about the future of the Greenlandic economy, but I will leave the controls.
And I'll talk to you about this later on.
And I'm just going to leave that to Richard.
And I'd like to remind myself of Andy in the cold.
I'll see you the first time.
Uh, I believe
is that we should all be engaged, and that the American people should be channeling and supporting the wage crisis in three years.
And I think we're going to try to control it.
It wouldn't work without it.
If America turns 50,000, the gains from the P.A.I.s are going to be very important to the world war soil.
It would take five more times.
Why does it work?
Because the American people support it.
However, there is a warning up here.
The American people are engaging in crime.
that Barron is there to watch over and ensure that the question has become controlled, and has a bureaucratic chance to do it, rather than to lead, or rather than to rule the time.
I don't believe that is the case.
Although, I have read that a great number of people continue to get it.
My state has continued to have .
I just don't want to be married.
That's why I'm so committed to .
the market forces are controlling inflation.
Because if our people, if this economy gets used to that clutch, we'll never throw it away.
Now, I think it would be less than that.
Not the fact that tryptophan is in our history, that it is still used in our history, but how they work.
Our people, we have something we need to value in the conference.
Politicians, our media, etc., etc., have become an answer to these spectators.
And so certainly they are.
It's exciting, you know, for a few times, like, going to the movies, or the New World, or, I don't know.
The Iraqi people, the Iraqis who are in this country, you know, are very knowledgeable.
They can be caught on, you know, the emotions of a big movie.
that they can turn the other way in a different sense.
And so that's why it's so important that you have a bunch of cosmetics that it be, that it be very fast and fast, visible, that's why you can't be so careful, because it might be very advanced when you take it.
And that's why the person who spoke at the summit had a moving mind.
The last program I've seen in my life, I've seen it right now in the city of California, was around the break of the 19th century.
And the way that we've had progress in Berlin, progress in Cuba, progress in biological warfare, progress in national warfare, and so on both sides,
Oh.
It's great.
really, but really, led on both sides to
and the determination to go forward and stop the plane.
But then Mr. Craig, who was my friend, was like, er, very bad on his side, but I liked his side.
He was a major player, so also was I.
Very excited to understand what was going on.
I was like, okay, we could have predicted that there were two signs he didn't see, but he had some differences.
As far as we're concerned, as far as we're concerned, that we have around the world, there's something, there's
And that is the conclusion of this series.
that they were moving their horses to the west.
I would not like to continue
after the Kennedys had a deliberate plan to do that.
On the other hand, once these taxis war, that secession war, are settled, they tend to rot their corpse.
It was quite an issue.
They would go on to...
The role we can play is that we have to be able to address these challenges.
uh... uh... uh...
And he said he lost me.
And he said he was murdered and was killed at night.
Because he had come home to India, he was assassinated.
And he said he had been assassinated because he thought that he was better off when he was doing good.
He's not in the city right now.
I talked to him in the train when he came home.
Good morning.
I didn't respond.
I think that would be more of a gossip, but I'm glad that you didn't have to stop.
It's 9.38 now.
My suggestion is that we have to change the panel discussion.
What's the matter, sir?
Yes, there's a lot.
I think it's very expensive.
If that happens, then no.
And I'm hoping that the United States and the very world are just not restraining any of the marketing and the political action that they can do very much.
I said what I translated into many, we could make the same arguments, but it's the same thing.
And there are hundreds of narratives in the long term.
The basic point of the other thing that you have up there, as is the case with Saul of Egypt, is that the principle of the enemy has a right to his integrity and the intent of his fingers.
uh, what's the word?
Superpowered and out of sight.
He's going to be persisting.
He's going to be in the accident.
He's going to be in the accident.
He's going to be in the accident.
He's going to be in the accident.
He's going to be in the accident.
He's going to be in the accident.
He's going to be in the accident.
Well, as long as you can carve it, it's good.
The preparation for these events, I can't emphasize too much.
um
a very dangerous action for a player to have.
As the game adds, it's going to involve more, involve the same people as the game.
To believe that with spectacular moves, with great impact, with great surprise,
are about, uh, repaying the residents.
And it's successful.
It is a requirement that it is, that it is a good thing or not.
It isn't, but the move, that move is spectacular.
It's big.
that is described in this report.
What is important is who prepared the precise and deliberate means in which they were drawn to get to the top.
And then the payoff is what's the worst.
And so I advise that you now, is that whether the jury's still on the case or not, I mean, listen, in a one-minute period of time,
uh...
And what follows the relationship between the United States and the United States is a great policy for the years to come.
And it may or may not be that that success, if it is a success, would be the management of the personnel in the office.
So to take no future off of us in this office, one real time, let's check out this thing here.
You want it?
It's me.
It's me.
It's me.
It's me.
It's me.
It's me.
It's me.
It's me.
It's me.
He used to say that when I did announce the decision, I would tell you about it.
But I will say this, though, and this is something that will be an issue.
I have known a great deal of thought through how it is possible to be a candidate
as the rules of American politics presently require for a whole year to be president.
There are some enormous problems in running as a president.
During the year 1972,
the president of Japan must be born in 2020 and not a candidate sent.
So, whatever the decision is, whatever the decision is, I interpret it that way.
Both of our foreign policy initiatives, lots of treatments because of our foreign policy teams, because of our major industry, but economic and other programs have underway.
Yeah, because we haven't been able to do this in a while.
The presidency with one party had things to do with Congress, and the other party had to get things through this Congress, even though it's the one with the right party.
It's of great importance.
I have determined that whatever this man has, that I can and will not, I can and I will not do it.
I can't do it.
I can't do it.
I'm afraid to do it, but I'm not going to cry.
I'm not going to cry.
I'm not going to cry.
I'm not going to cry.
I can see no way that it would be possible.
and to the success of the group.
We have to be about work as far as we can.
We have to be concerned.
We're never going to lose our programs.
If I, uh, if I, uh, had a date, assuming that I had a date, uh, well, then, you know, sitting down in the country, and in the primary states, or, or in that country, you know, they didn't want me to be out here in parts of Canada.
Getting down, frankly, in the, uh, in the area.
So that's why I'm here with you.
I know it's going to be great.
It's going to be great.
It's going to be great.
It's going to be great.
It's going to be great.
It's going to be great.
I think that I've done a great job.
I've done a great job.
I've done a great job.
I've done a great job.
I've done a great job.
Thank you for watching.
Thank you.
I hope that I won't get it done, except to say that my theory about good, not mean, is pretty old.
I would say that whoever would be a Democratic nominee would be the man who was the strongest at the time.
He would be nominated for the man.
And it would be a very close contest.
It would be what I have to, and I'm afraid we're going to complain about this for some time.
We're going to do what we want to do next.
Thank you very much.
He was a strong third party candidate in the race.
But I didn't know what to do.
over the wall.
And it never really has been changed that much.
But we are in a period of some of it being .
But we are in a period of actions that I think are going to be very close .
And it will be done.
But they were not in their strongest hands at that time.
So I would say to the man who conducted the song, who cast the song, if I were not very attentive, I would be thinking, not how I should have done it, not how I should have done it.
How old?
What are they starting to do to catch on and catch fire?
And who can also work between now and that very convention?
Because when that convention comes, they will not let you talk to them.
I believe, first, between all that, when I left the party, I had an absolute attachment to it, and a lack of attachment of the issue of being moved by it.
It would be quite difficult to see it in their eyes, you know.
I don't know.
The difficulty with some of the Democratic candidates is that they're running on issues that are inevitably going to be gone.
The issue is, well, who am I going to meet with the candidate as far as any assistance is going to be made?
With regard to the amount of debt, that's all that's lost.
If the economy moves, that's when it doesn't go.
And it's moving upward, strongly.
The bill, the second order, the third order, of 1972, the one that I mentioned, the one that came out in the economy, that leaves them five.
and I hope that you continue to, you know, promise the cities, and promise the people, and promise the race, and promise to be good, and I hope that we can, you know, be different.
I'm trying to see, but what I have to tell you, and I, you know, is, uh, the laws I'm hardly going to talk into the, uh, in the chapter, uh, you know, the, uh,
It's always a note.
building the last case is never going to exist now.
But now it's possible.
And we can look at it fairly sharply.
At the end of the next year, the end of the four years, we can find not just ending the war, but ending the president who has done one way or another fighting for the right way.
The fact is, in terms of order of magnitude, in terms of order of magnitude, we'll be right to it.
We'll be right to it.
I don't have the respect to tell you this or not.
and it was hit and be torqued by
World relationships occurred in the years 1971-72 as a result of American initiatives toward the Soviets and toward the Japanese on the other side.
I want you to be careful here not to overstate it in terms of saying, well, we're going to China, we're going to the Soviets, and everybody's going to understand each other, understand each other, and like each other, our differences.
The United States and the Catholic and the Soviet Union in general are going to be in non-competition and very ambiguous competition in the mainstream.
They have to be.
We're two very different powers.
The mainstream part of the terrible, agony of the conflict between Israel and Spain,
It's across the edge of the world.
It's in our resources.
It's the main band hack.
And it's absolutely good.
You can actually make your own edit there.
It's available to that group in the case.
And that group can take it, no matter how many songs you know.
Saladation is the more peripheral.
One of the things in general
What I'm suggesting, Donald, is that as far as you're concerned, and this is why this is a tough man,
We have a very challenging time.
Because we're both going into it.
No means.
No means to my talking about the government.
In fact, we have the same
You know, it's valid.
You just didn't understand us, and now we understand you better.
We're going to get along, and we'll work together.
We're going to get along, and we're going to get along.
working for the success of their own country, and for the success of the parts of the world.
I am just dedicated to Marxism for that, but I mean, we both realistically know that we are definitely going to intervene and carry the truck in the hands of a lot of parts of the world.
What we have to do is to get this problem in, and it is not there.
It's in the heavens.
in terms of, or in negotiating channels.
And that I think we can do.
And looking at the channels and trying to, it is memorable, but that could, I say, not necessarily, basically, that the United States still has very, very great interests.
I mean, we, the possibility of our difference is so big, and competition is probably even greater.
We have to realize that we are a Pacific power and there is a human hand
in the United States.
The United States is going to sit back and not attempt to dialogue to future power, future powers.
Thank you.
I think we have become, we have become out of conscience, and out of shame, and out of self-love, and out of our consumerism and our opinion.
I don't believe in that.
I never was.
I think the idea is rather prevalent.
I love you.
You're a great neighbor.
I think you're a great neighbor.
But I don't think the age is spectacular.
I'm not a black boy.
The air is running clear.
Uh, you know, there's a lot of other people in my community who really have a preference, uh, against each other.
And it's made it so obvious to me, you know, that we can't afford anything.
Not just how I look for, you know, anything else.
And, uh, you know, in terms of, uh,
I don't have any reason to.
I haven't seen them though.
I haven't seen them.
Certainly it will be the past three years.
And what you said to me really didn't mean this, but it's the notion of our being overgrown and ragged.
And we have to know that's just not the case.
I have some control over my press.
I feel, I had thought, and it just made me a, made me a little, made me a American.
I had thought that, that actually both these countries
I don't know if yours, but basically, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't think confidence is inspired by people.
It's a very broad problem.
I wrote a song.
I wrote a song.
I wrote a song.
I wrote a song.
I wrote a song.
Wearing a mask truly is a great event in this field of recreation.
Recreation is a lot of recreation, a lot of jazz, a lot of my wife used to teach me how to play the guitar herself.
And still, you know, the lawyers, you know, actually are sorry about it.
It is true that your country, your country is just as bad, but there are things you can do about it.
I don't feel like I would be a poor man like Theodore Roosevelt.
He was such a great, great...
But anyway, he may have left young America, young children of color, proud of themselves.
He didn't want to go to America.
He was scared of that great time.
I would say that we can't, I can't go on this.
This country is in trouble.
It is in trouble.
In trouble.
Because of our, our, you know, our, you know, our legacy to get out there.
We have no water.
We have to go to some of these other places and move on.
And it was a deep trouble at home.
I call it a crisis experiment.
Others have got a bunch of other problems.
But I mean, I want to get through this.
If I was the president and go out and harangue people and say, we have nothing to fear, to fear itself and all that, maybe people would live it up.
I think that our people had their expectations raised so high during the 60s, so high, and so far, that a certain perhaps healthy space was held up at one point.
But then, it becomes self-destructive when they become so spastic and so, so statical about our country.
So, my God, we've been following up on our core policy.
Why do we have to be a problem in the United States, not fit to be a world leader?
Let's try to handle our own problems.
And try to weigh world leadership, air transport, and so on and so forth.
But anyway, at this point, I think that we are down.
I have to think.
So it's an intuition.
And then he had been through, in the past, perhaps four or five years.
So it began to be certain.
He had to find a way to get out of the situation he had been in a year ago.
He had to understand that it was his own party.
And there should have been a lot more of them.
And he began to have a rise of violence against the police, etc.
Americans, many East American Jews began to doubt their systems.
The drug business began to falter.
But lastly, we wondered whether our economy, we knew that pain was not a war.
So we did run an anti-communist campaign.
So I did now get pumped through that period.
But we're just beginning to start on again.
And I think that by talking about all these other people around here,
I'd like to put it all in this idea of respect.
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We can talk about programs, and that's what makes it harder to achieve what you most have to write about.
Well, yes, I see it.
What I would hope to have come out of the next year
They still have the American people, a sense of kindness to themselves, a pride in their country, that the United States is proud of the fact that we all are able to support a policy we believe in.
that we are doing our little best, whether it's as your little question, like the conflict in South Asia, or in Asia or other places.
But all our failures, if you want to say that, if it weren't for the United States and the fact that we are continuing to play a role,
I think on war and on domestic crime, that all the problems we have, there are breaking points.
an enormous number of decent people working on and thinking about it.
And we're going to end with it.
I point out, for example, I go back to the problems with humane detainment.
Actually, this is the responsibility of the critics, the press, the politicians, the press.
And I say, what are we going to do about housing in Queens?
And what are we going to do about that busing program in Boston?
What about the segregated schools?
Look where we've come.
Look at that.
The Hawaiian Revolution is different.
It's a solid tree.
It's where we bought it.
And this is perfect.
They're going to be there.
The black people are different from white people.
They always will be.
And that will be registered under KMR.
But what we have realized is that whether it's the relations between the races, whether it's the relations between the generations, the opportunities for people to do anything, that this country can still do very well.
It's doing very well.
I don't think that I can expect, you know,
I have confidence that the United States right now is on the brink of exercising its power to do good.
in the world such as good has never been done in the history of civilization.
Because we need now to have, you know, muster our moral force, our economic force, and we, of course, have military power to back up our words.
We can muster it to attempt to build a structure of peace, of acceptance.
We couldn't dream of it if it weren't for you.
We couldn't dream of it if it wasn't for you.
that it wasn't the right time, it wasn't the right time to catch this thing.
And now the time has come.
And we must seize the moment.
Seize the moment, our relationship, seize it in the spirit of ours.
And also, not fail to step up to such a tough problem as tonight.
And in fact, the person up in the room said, we have to maintain the balance there.
Because if we don't maintain it there, we'll be fired.
We have to do the smartest thing
Well, the reason we went to China was to make Russians happy.
And I wanted to make Russians happy.
I wanted to make Chinese happy.
I do not accept at all the proposition that the United States should
We need to put it in its right hands and say, what we need to do is we need to find an effect that's in good relation with the wrong ones.
And if it isn't for the two of us, that will, that will continue to happen.
That's, that's a good show that we're making policy, and vitally disastrous for making policy.
Because, you know, I have to decide to be the green force of the world.
And, to play one against the other.
But the idea that they don't care about each other because they're long for it, because they're notable, because they rub each other smart.
Where nuclear superpowers are from, we here in the United States,
that cannot look upon any possible operator of war as being something that people would want.
Two reasons.
One, because the Iron Structure would be a horrible building to an old conscience of mankind.
But there's another reason too.
We want you to go over there.
Right there.
Right there.
Right there.
There's all the countries who have a career.
It kind of ruffles.
It becomes always a conflict.
It would inevitably evolve.
It would have to evolve.
It would have to evolve.
The problem is that there are dangers.
There have possibly been dangers.
So, what I'm saying is something I'm saying is this.
The purpose of our policy is to maintain as good relations as we can that both recognize the reality that because our systems of government are different, they are different.
We are all the powers that we can have that are going to that competition.
I think on that kind of a basis, it is possible that it makes a difference.
In other words, if I go back, I'm going to look at the regular offense.
If I go back, I'm going to look at the regular offense.
But we must remember, the only time in the history of the world that we had any extended periods of peace was when there had been balance and power.
It was when man advanced.
It was when one thing became continually more powerful in relation to the other, and that was the nature of the world around us.
And so I believe that the world might have stopped at this point.
I believe the world in which the United States is now, in which Europe is united, with Britain and India, and the United States, I think, is on the other side.
Even though, I can rest for a moment, there's been a very small case of riveting of arms
in Britain and Europe, Britain, France, Germany, and their hand.
And that still continues.
They're places of great conscience, of great power, because regardless of what system they are, they're great people and they're going to be a great power to our state and to the United States.
I mean, that does not in any way .
So moving further down the road,
But at the present time, I think it is safer and a better if we have a strong and healthy United States, Europe, China, Japan.
If we can balance again, not just one country, but if we can balance again, it's that kind of world I think we're going to see.
I forgot how to say this.
It's best to give you a choice challenge.
Well, you know, the, uh, I know the same, uh, the same, the same process.
It's always the same.
How can I get you to that?
I don't see, uh,
I don't enjoy the urgency in terms of power.
I can't even pray enough over some topics.
I hear it a lot.
I don't know how you're going to work on it.
I don't know how you're going to work on it.
I don't know how you're going to work on it.
I go back to, I think it's often said by other leaders, he said, one of the currents of the way in terms of the maturity of political figures is the mature political leader is one, and this here is the presence, and he described it this way, there are those
because of what they are.
In other words, because of what he presently is.
And there are others who would be present because of what they do.
Well, in terms, I think it's in the latter context.
I mean, there's the, uh, all the travels, the loggings, all the power loggings, the moving and all this stuff.
That is something that we can't really argue about.
And then, I must say, I don't do particularly enjoy
the bureaucracy, the press, all that.
That's what I enjoyed in that sense.
Some people are really enjoying it and they're sweating it out.
In order to get me out of it, and I think part of the fight with the Congress is that, well, we want to do it.
But, what I do like about the job is something which I'm proud of, which is that we've done it for greatness.
My first weekend, if I can keep my breath today.
What I do like about it,
is the possibility of doing something that someone else might not have been able to do.
growing up, he had very few words.
I think we will do things, particularly this next year, if I survive, and find a policy.
which can create a new structure of any sort.
To the extent that I think when I practiced for a bad boy, I would very thoroughly enjoy the job.
But if you put it in terms of enjoying the job, it's the everyday matters, not the day-to-day.
See, I did, I thought it belonged to you.
And, uh, I don't have any more questions.
You're welcome.
I'm sorry we had to go.
I was going to take you over to the Christmas party, but they've got about 1,500 white-hawk fans.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you for chatting with us.
It's very nice to meet you.
I guess we'll be leaving in the morning.
Oh, yeah.
We don't need to go this other way here.
We have to go to the front.
You guys have already got comments.
We've got something else for you.
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But actually it's something else.
I don't know, I just see it as something that's done.
I don't know if it's better, but it's something real.
I don't know.
What is that good old thing?
Now these are ferrets, right?
And you can see it on the jeep's back there.
I know, man, it's a little less than $5.
This is one of the greatest presents I've ever seen.
And that's for your new money.
And if you go over there, I'll take it.
I'll take it.
Thank you.