Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 659-023
Date: Friday, January 28, 1972 at 5:03 PM
Participants: United States Secret Service agents; [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/659-023

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[4:54:10] If you bring up something secretly, they love it.
[4:54:12] I get focused.
[4:54:13] Really?
[4:54:13] Is that right?
[4:54:15] They want to know what airplanes we used, what airplanes we landed at.
[4:54:21] You haven't told them that?
[4:54:23] That's good.
[4:54:24] But time figured out.
[4:54:26] Of course, we had five different routes.
[4:54:28] But time had found out one of them.
[4:54:32] What's a fascinating story.
[4:54:35] Did they know about Walters?
[4:54:37] No.
[4:54:39] You know, didn't you say that the French, though, were delighted?
[4:54:42] Oh, they're drooling all over.
[4:54:44] I expressed my thanks to the person who followed you, you know, who made the rings and the scissors.
[4:54:57] They loved it.
[4:54:58] Frankly, they started to regal, didn't they?
[4:55:01] No.
[4:55:01] Was he dead?
[4:55:01] No.
[4:55:01] August 69, he was alive, but...
[4:55:04] He resigned in May 69, end of April 69.
[4:55:07] April 69.
[4:55:09] Oh, wow.
[4:55:11] It was then, though.
[4:55:12] Yes.
[4:55:15] But I mean, de Gaulle resigned in April.
[4:55:17] Yes, he resigned in August.
[4:55:19] Yes, and in August they started.
[4:55:23] But you know, that was a very good story when you were in the parks yesterday.
[4:55:28] I should have thought of it.
[4:55:29] But I see that whenever you can let a man get some credit for something, and also whenever you let the world know that he's in on the secret, it shows you trust in him.
[4:55:42] Papa, who is a French love to me, that when we were sitting there and he said, or she once said, is there any way we can help on this?
[4:55:48] Can you please let us know?
[4:55:49] And I said, well, you know.
[4:55:52] They all want it all.
[4:55:54] Oh, no, that, that, that turns out to be fine.