Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 664-016
Date: Wednesday, February 2, 1972 at 10:05 AM
Participants: United States Secret Service agents
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/664-016

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[1:08:57] I have taken the line that India is the largest free world country, must have an opportunity.
[1:09:01] to prove that it can compete with China in the largest totalitarian country.
[1:09:06] And that the United States is a great state and India is an experiment in democracy.
[1:09:12] This is my view.
[1:09:13] It hasn't been my view in the past.
[1:09:15] It's my view at the present time.
[1:09:17] This is despite the fact we have no treaty with India.
[1:09:20] We have no alliance with India.
[1:09:22] We respect their non-alignment.
[1:09:24] When India's kicked us around the United Nations in Russia, I defended them in Q&A during the campaign in 1968 and said, we respect the right of countries to disagree and that our aid goes without strings.
[1:09:35] I take that speech more on than anybody else.
[1:09:37] Now, having said all that,
[1:09:40] I mean, it comes with the old race, where, and it's not the Indians to say that Nixon is out just for them.
[1:09:49] Hell, we're not out for them.
[1:09:50] I'm just trying to, basically, what we're really trying to do is to keep the Indians, what we did at the end of the day, from God and from the neighbor.