On January 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:46 pm and 3:49 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 658-032 of the White House Tapes.
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But, you have this whole distribution, geographically, and also, from the top.
Then I went off and said, it would be fun, we could all be islands, we could all think about it, and start doing things.
But we don't have the right information for war.
But I said, we don't live in a nation.
I said, communism comes from socialism, and other things, and the state of Iraq and the state of China.
But,
The Russian people are strong, false, and dangerous people.
The Chinese people are strong, false, and dangerous people, despite all the opiates that's going on in the country.
And I said, what are strong, false, and dangerous people?
And, of course, in your future, none of the questions is the United States Minister going to lose his balls in his daydream.
Not is he?
Or are we going to stand up and get rid of the dependence on him?
And actually, the trouble is, this is the whole thing.
The whole thing tolerates it.
The people that run it are probably going to sell it to you.
The worst kind of incest they had was intellectual incest.
And I said, they were talking too much, they talked too much, they didn't do it.
But the main fact, I said, you know, they had to be heard.
No question.
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