Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 786-019
Date: Monday, September 25, 1972 at 12:33 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Young, Edward; Conrad, Charles; Hackett, Luther; Linski, Martin; Povinelli, Henry; Pritchard, Joel; Thompson, Meldrim, Jr.; Hunt, William; Powell, Wesley; Belardino, Mario; Rittenband, Richard; Dent, Harry S.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/786-019

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[0:00] Really?
[0:01] Is that right?
[0:02] Oh, it's 1943 or 4, that period.
[0:28] And you know what I was saying, New Zealanders were there.
[0:33] We were scathing.
[0:34] We were scathing.
[0:36] They had everything in that one pile of water.
[0:40] Everybody was taking that.
[0:42] And you were taking that and all this turning yellow.
[0:46] Yeah, yeah.
[0:47] And it would take some light and you'd stand up against that tree out there with those jacket boots on.
[0:52] Yeah, yeah.
[0:53] Well, you know, it's hard to realize that that was 20 years ago.
[0:55] Yeah, 20 years ago.
[1:03] 28 years ago.
[1:03] Well, we have been, I'm sure.
[1:06] They're going to live.
[1:07] The Green Island, the Green Island Massacre.
[1:10] Get the national events on there.
[1:14] South Carolina, the three national events.
[1:19] You know, all that sort of stuff.
[1:21] We were on the right side of that.
[1:23] Well, that's something else.
[1:30] Any kind of apartment could be opened up in China and Russia and Japan.
[1:33] That's right.
[1:34] And it's going to go up.
[1:35] Believe me.
[1:36] And you would not afraid to go into these places.
[1:38] Right.