Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 700-009
Date: Monday, April 3, 1972 at 4:27 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/700-009

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[3:07:29] Let me go, please.
[3:07:30] Just a second.
[3:07:31] Let me see.
[3:08:00] Yes, it is heard.
[3:09:06] But the reason that, what I ask is, let us oppose, let us oppose the problem.
[3:09:12] What is left in the belief of American foreclosures?
[3:09:18] What in the name of God is left?
[3:09:21] Will you tell me?
[3:09:22] We can't consider that we've got to go there.
[3:09:26] Yeah, so, so, but then suppose what's necessary is not necessary.
[3:09:32] That means it's not good, it's not enough.
[3:09:34] Then what is left?
[3:09:36] If we do it though, we can't let it be shipped away, then we just have to do it.
[3:09:45] But we should only consider it.
[3:09:48] But in terms of leaving, do you understand that it's...
[3:10:01] Well, you're just standing here.
[3:10:02] Cancel the Moscow summit.
[3:10:04] No, no.
[3:10:06] The Moscow summit is based on other things.
[3:10:10] It would weaken us, unbelievably, wouldn't it?
[3:10:12] Well, it would weaken us, but then we'd just lay everything on the floor.
[3:10:16] And it's just, I'm getting paid to admit it.
[3:10:20] We've got, this is a great country.
[3:10:24] The Algeria analogy does not work.
[3:10:28] It does not work because France had, long before Algeria, had ceased to be a world power.
[3:10:43] And so it didn't matter whether France had Algeria or not.
[3:10:49] It was a French internal problem in a real sense.
[3:10:52] The United States is a world power, correct?
[3:10:55] Absolutely.
[3:10:56] So that's what's involved here, and that's why this is an artist's club.
[3:11:07] Okay, see you later.