Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 709-016
Date: Monday, April 17, 1972 at 12:02 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rice, Donald B.; Weinberger, Caspar W. ("Cap"); Shultz, George P.; Bull, Stephen B.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/709-016

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[0:02] All right, all right, all right.
[0:04] Well, I understand you're going to California?
[0:06] Yes, sir.
[0:06] All right, all right, sir.
[0:07] I'm sure everyone's going to be in here.
[0:13] That's right.
[0:13] We'll be enjoying it.
[0:14] Say, listen, that's it.
[0:14] That's it.
[0:15] That's it over here.
[0:15] All right.
[0:16] All right.
[0:22] Do you think you can handle a think tank now if you're having the OSB?
[0:24] We're going to try and change some of this.
[0:26] Are you?
[0:27] It needs a little more attention for security.
[0:37] Have you been with the ground before ?
[0:40] Well, the committee of trustees went through a search process that looked through a lot of people, and somehow they settled here.
[0:51] I happen to have had a background here with George and working on areas.
[1:00] Right.
[1:00] And before that, .
[1:06] They're not a tech group.
[1:07] No, we lived in Monterey for two years.
[1:13] Monterey, yeah.
[1:13] Now you lived here in Santa Monica?
[1:16] Santa Monica.
[1:17] Santa Monica.
[1:18] Santa Monica.
[1:19] Well, you probably lived in the city of Palisades, probably around in that area.
[1:26] Yeah, we lived in the city of Palisades.
[1:28] Yeah, well, that's that church.
[1:30] That's all the country.
[1:37] If you can send him to public school, there are no problems.
[1:42] All right.
[1:43] He's losing everything.
[2:01] You've got money left.
[2:02] That's the best thing we have.
[2:04] It's more expensive than the compensation.
[2:06] You already have compensation.
[2:07] You've got compensation.
[2:08] Well, I did a couple things I did for my dad.
[2:10] Thank you.
[2:11] For your wife, that's a little compact.
[2:20] Thank you.
[2:20] She had to give it to somebody else.
[2:22] You have one of these little things.
[2:26] Your dad had one of these.
[2:29] I do have one of these.
[2:31] I wish you the best out there.
[2:35] It's a great place to live.
[2:36] I miss the excitement here.
[2:39] Yes, indeed.
[2:40] I hope the work gets supported.
[2:41] Well, the work gets supported, sure.
[2:45] But we will be kind to each other that way.
[2:55] Thank you very much.
[3:01] Don't write it down.
[3:03] No, you want to leave.
[3:05] George doesn't want to go back to Chicago.
[3:07] He's done.
[3:08] Yeah, no problem.
[3:08] Sometimes you have just choices.
[3:10] You're always drawing hundreds of thousands of people.
[3:31] made a peace offer and my answer of the massive invasion of the south and so on.
[3:37] People say we're going to jeopardize the summit.
[3:40] We're not saying anything about this topic.
[3:45] We're in total contact with the Russians.
[3:49] And we're very tough on them.
[3:54] I'm not going to go to the summit.
[3:56] We may blockade at the end of the week.
[4:02] I mean, by winning an army, not losing it.
[4:04] Now, what else can you do?
[4:07] Now, if we're like Johnson, where we have a half a million men out there, and we were protecting the ground, that'd be different.
[4:14] But, George, this is the poor, damn little South Vietnamese who aren't very good fighters, fighting a massive invasion by 15 North Vietnamese divisions, and the United States just can't run out there.
[4:26] I'm joking.
[4:26] I just held it very well.
[4:31] We can't because the papers are already wrong about this situation.
[4:38] They're totally wrong about it now.
[4:44] Or total.
[4:46] Okay.