Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 725-034
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 1972 at 12:54 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Granfil, Toma; Sonnenfeldt, Helmut ("Hal"); White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/725-034

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[4:01:57] I don't think I've met Mr. Mujica.
[4:01:57] I don't think on any of my trips, but I hope to leave sometime.
[4:02:00] But he has our good wishes, not on me.
[4:02:01] I'm trying to get you to work with our state department people and our White House people.
[4:02:21] We will be as helpful as we can.
[4:02:28] That's right.
[4:02:29] Do you understand the Prime Minister?
[4:02:40] You'll have a residence here, yeah?
[4:02:41] Well, we are going to have a meeting.
[4:02:43] We've been here already, so you know the challenge.
[4:02:46] I hope you find a comfortable residence.
[4:02:57] It's that way, mister.
[4:03:53] I don't think I've met Mr. Moody Knight and I don't think I've met any Montrose.
[4:04:21] But I hope to leave sometime.
[4:04:23] But he has our good wishes.
[4:04:26] I mean, you can work with our city, our people, and our white house people.
[4:04:30] It's all those we can.
[4:04:32] Right.
[4:04:32] Right.
[4:04:47] That's right, he is the new prime minister.
[4:04:59] You'll, uh, you'll have a residence here, yeah?
[4:05:01] We'll be, uh, we'll be having a little meeting.
[4:05:02] You've been here already, so you know the town well.
[4:05:05] I hope you find a comfortable residence.
[4:05:08] I must say, you said a country girl would have a seat with you.
[4:05:13] Bye.
[4:05:13] Bye.
[4:05:13] It's that way.
[4:05:14] It's the other way.
[4:05:17] Thank you.
[4:06:12] Yeah.
[4:06:13] Yeah.
[4:06:13] Yeah.
[4:06:14] Yeah.
[4:06:39] Yes, that's a film of ours, his last visit to KFR.
[4:06:47] And at the same time, I'm sanctified with all my best wishes to God.
[4:06:56] I want you to convey to them that we have some fondest recollections of our own visit to your country.
[4:07:15] and also the Monterey elections of his visit to our country.
[4:07:20] And we feel we have a very close personal tie-down, and as we want to continue, it's hard to realize he's going to be in this tea on the first day of the 25th.
[4:07:38] I hope that I'll be 60 my next birthday, and I hope I am as much bigger at 60 as he has at 80.
[4:07:47] Thank you.
[4:07:47] It's awesome.
[4:07:47] It's not a valley, but it is.
[4:07:49] Our whole country is celebrating it.
[4:07:50] Right.
[4:07:50] So to be sure, I prepared a message on that.
[4:07:52] Would you work it out to send it through the ambassador?
[4:07:55] I will send the message in.
[4:07:59] Yes.
[4:08:00] The personal letter.
[4:08:02] Well, you can send it by publisher or by anything you do that way.
[4:08:12] Yeah.
[4:08:13] Perfect.
[4:08:19] and I'm sure that's the 25th of May.
[4:08:22] It's his birthday, right?
[4:08:23] Yes.
[4:08:23] We've got to get off before we leave for Moscow.
[4:08:27] Right.
[4:08:28] And to that point, we're in Moscow.
[4:08:31] We would not encourage you.
[4:08:33] So the president sent a message that he's looking forward to your visit to Moscow.
[4:08:39] He's hopeful that you'll be successful.
[4:08:42] The meeting visit was successful and very important for us.
[4:08:47] I mean, it will make it, make the world safer, make it safer for independent countries as we want.
[4:08:54] Yes.
[4:08:55] Our business can't help that way.
[4:08:56] We hope that it's in Moscow, not by independent countries, I mean.
[4:09:01] Their social system is their own business.
[4:09:07] They have a social system.
[4:09:13] This country has the right to its own existence, its own existence.
[4:09:15] It has been the example of that for many years.
[4:09:17] We believe in that principle.
[4:09:29] We want good relations with the Soviet Union.
[4:09:30] We want good relations with the U.S. government.
[4:09:32] And we will make some agreements with the Soviet Union that are bilateral.
[4:09:36] They will not be directed against anybody else.
[4:09:38] And to become the only president that we will, I will write him afterwards.
[4:09:56] I don't know.
[4:10:15] my personal observations for his own information, because he talked to me very frankly about his visits and his observations, and I only ever have the same observations from me.
[4:10:29] We'll have a good exchange of views.
[4:10:30] So, President Tito, I very much appreciate it.
[4:10:32] You can't reveal such a note.
[4:10:33] Well, that's a prime thought.
[4:10:33] That's a prime thought for your president.
[4:10:34] Prime thought.
[4:10:35] Very intelligent.
[4:10:35] Very soft.
[4:10:35] Nothing soft about him.
[4:10:36] Yeah, it's very personal.
[4:10:45] That's going to work out.
[4:10:52] I mean, he will be strong.