Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 659-004
Date: Friday, January 28, 1972 at 12:17 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/659-004

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[1:45:41] So you want me to come back in?
[1:45:45] Yes, sir.
[1:45:45] Thank you, then.
[1:45:46] With that remark you made about Montezuma and Cato, spectacular.
[1:45:49] Yes, all right.
[1:45:50] The French have been making favorable statements about that speech.
[1:45:53] Yes.
[1:45:55] Further than any president could possibly have done.
[1:45:59] Yes.
[1:45:59] They've been preaching the press.
[1:46:05] And then, you see, we all just, everybody likes to feel that he's playing a part in the very events of history.
[1:46:16] You know what I mean?
[1:46:18] And Tom Coffey, of course, let people keep up with that whole Coffey event.
[1:46:22] That's fine.
[1:46:23] We bring him in.
[1:46:24] No, you were right.
[1:46:24] It's just not that.
[1:46:26] I didn't, I don't see, I just heard you on, I just didn't know what Mrs. Coffey.
[1:46:28] I've, I've decided, decided, decided in brief, I think, that this will be a long-term, a next week, in which you'll bring in, uh,
[1:46:34] The cover is going to be this week or next week.
[1:46:36] This is it.
[1:46:36] Oh, it has to be.
[1:46:37] No, but they're studying live.
[1:46:38] Yeah.
[1:46:40] Next week, they want to actually have the cover picture made next week.
[1:46:43] I'm sorry.
[1:46:45] That's fine.
[1:46:47] They'd have to take it.
[1:46:48] It's before time.
[1:46:49] I know it.
[1:46:50] Well, you can get in the time thing.
[1:46:53] I didn't give a deal with how the speech was written.
[1:46:58] But then I tell you that you've got the yellow sheets and the long dictation of Camp David.
[1:47:03] They were both done together.
[1:47:07] And all of those notes were held in all these memorandums.
[1:47:10] You could say, I have to send the standard procedure, the heat of recovery portion, and the length from where you'd come, and the length of the hell it was all about, where you'd send these along.
[1:47:23] But I said, you read the red things, the total things, and I just tacked up the 12 different things, and the red borders, and read the total.
[1:47:32] Well, I made notes on them.
[1:47:33] Well, what I said to Schenker was,
[1:47:43] I can give you a full report.
[1:47:44] You will then pass me on to the second act.
[1:47:45] Mr. President, this is really, this is the first order we've signed.
[1:47:49] This is the second order we've come out to handle this issue.
[1:47:54] This is the first order we've signed.
[1:47:55] This is the first order we've come out to handle this issue.
[1:47:57] This is the first order we've signed.
[1:48:01] This is the first order we've come out to handle this issue.
[1:48:03] This is the first order we've come out to handle this issue.
[1:48:04] This is the first order we've come out to handle this issue.
[1:48:07] This is the first order we've come out to handle this issue.
[1:48:12] Granted, this is just for the family and people, they find this.