United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:59 pm on March 6, 1972 and 7:54 am on March 7, 1972. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 678-008 of the White House Tapes.
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They won't do it.
But if they do, you must, though, remember to never say, that was what the president said here last day, you must not pay attention to what a senator says.
They won't pick it up.
I'm practically certain of that.
The state was on the record.
Yeah, the state was on the record.
Yeah, but Scott is nobody.
The state is an organ of the government.
But Scott voted me.
Or he said it was a little more indirect than that.
He said it was.
He didn't say it was.
It wasn't good, but it was not good.
I don't know.
We are having a Cambodian purpose.
That is, we wanted to instruct Green to warn the Cambodians against making a separate deal.
Now, Sullivan is blocking that, and because obviously the state has been pushing them into the direction of the separate deal.
Now, I'm sure that they'll all... Why don't you just give me a memorandum signed?
Okay.
Well, if you would let me edit the dispatch, and let me tell them that I...
can you just say that i i saw it by this uh by franklin's this is a this is totally because it's too dangerous with regard to the opening issue and then bill and i ordered directly from the spanish and i'll call you sure and uh i said well but i think on the letter a lot worse
Well, maybe, maybe, but we're going to have some.
And on the other hand, the main thing is that you can have a price to see those great relations.
Isn't that true?
Oh, that's it.
They won't get anywhere near great relations.
They may bother us on the amount of money.