Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 686-007
Date: Friday, March 17, 1972 at 10:09 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/686-007

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[30:29] If you could lean, there's this thing in your top side.
[30:37] See that?
[30:57] My recommendation is that you rule the game, but not as to me, but as to other folks I'm very interested in.
[31:03] Because Smith is trying to get us out of the field at the end.
[31:08] If he can't get us out of the field, I rule this defense.
[31:12] It gives me the heart, and I'll try to do it.
[31:15] I'll present this defense as a heart check, and if you want me to read for that, give me a chance to do it, and I'll be interested in it, and I'll go ahead and do that at the end.
[31:24] Well, here's the answer.
[31:45] There's also what he wants next, that is to say, one side.
[31:48] Now, one side, after he started with 12, it's going to put him in a hell of a hole.
[31:54] I'm just going to tell him, I'm going to leave him to say that I don't agree with that.
[32:01] And I'm going to show him what I'm going to let him do.
[32:04] So I think it's okay to rule this sort of thing on.
[32:06] He's got to believe it.
[32:07] He's got to believe it.
[32:09] We're going to get it.
[32:12] Now we've got to put it up there too.
[32:16] It's going to make less of it without it.