Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 664-013
Date: Wednesday, February 2, 1972 at 12:41 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]; McCormack, John W.; White House photographer; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/664-013

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[1:34:57] Do we feel worried about King?
[1:35:00] He's a good soldier.
[1:35:01] He just wants to do everything, but it's awfully hard to know what to do in that particular place.
[1:35:08] But I think if we move at a measured pace, he's waiting for me.
[1:35:12] After this meeting, I've got something.
[1:35:14] He'll read this out.
[1:35:15] He's a patient captain in the meantime.
[1:35:18] He's removed at a measured pace.
[1:35:24] The Indians have their own reasons to get close.
[1:35:26] That's why I called him and slaughtered him off.
[1:35:29] The Indians have no interest in the Russian satellite.
[1:35:32] Well, look, the point that I make is cheating.
[1:35:36] which I think we've got to realize that poor Americans, we are always worried.
[1:35:40] John Cox is very outspoken on this point.
[1:35:42] He's absolutely right.
[1:35:44] We are always so passionately worried that our foreign policy is going to so enrage another country that they will refuse to accept our aid.
[1:35:55] Now, there hasn't been anybody.
[1:35:58] I'd like to deeply see what the ambassador says.
[1:36:01] Bobby, I would like to.
[1:36:07] an interesting position.
[1:36:09] Keating recalled when he and I came here as freshmen of Congress in 1947, we were among perhaps 10 Republicans who were supporters of aid to India, and I supported all my life, my political life, still do, and so forth and so on.
[1:36:23] But I said, well, I'm not going to support aid to any country that is at that time engaged in military action, period.
[1:36:30] So, but then I made the point to Keating, I said, look,
[1:36:34] I said, India, I said, rather than, I said, the point that some of our friends in the States say, how can we reassure the Indians?
[1:36:44] And you know, they all look at them, how can the Indians reassure us?
[1:36:47] Because basically, I said, look at India.
[1:36:50] What are their options?
[1:36:52] They have three superpowers that they have to deal with.
[1:36:57] One is China, the other is Russia, and the other is the United States.
[1:37:01] Now,
[1:37:03] The only one that they are sure has absolutely no designs on territory, economically, politically, is the United States of America.
[1:37:12] We proved it by $10 billion over 20 years without a string and got a kick in the tail of the United Nations every place else.
[1:37:20] They cannot say that about the Chinese reserve that they lived in in 1962.
[1:44:55] We'll be right back.
[1:46:48] Could you not be locked up in a jail cell?
[1:46:51] Could not be locked in a jail cell?
[1:48:36] I'm sorry.
[1:49:13] Thank you.
[1:50:09] I don't know what you mean, sir.
[1:50:12] I don't know what you mean.
[1:52:55] Right now, they've already turned you in every time.